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A HISTORY 

OF 

THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 

OF 

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF WHAT 
ITS MEMBERS HAVE DONE 




PUBLISHED UPON THE OCCASION OF THE 

ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 
1913 



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APOLOGY 

This volume is intended primarily for the members of the 
Philomathean Society Senior, Junior, Nominal and Honorary. 
To those of our alumni who by their generosity have made pos- 
sible the publication of this book, the editors desire, in behalf 
of the Society, to extend their most sincere thanks not only 
to those whose financial contributions have been so liberal, but 
also to those who have aided the editors with information which 
has been of inestimable value in remedying the few defects in 
the Society 's records. The minute books are complete save 
for the years 1824-36, and this want is supplied by other records 
such as "Reviews," catalogues of officers, publications, and the 
"Recorder's Roll." Signing the "Recorder's Roll" is part of 
the initiation ceremony to this day, and the venerable volume 
contains the signature of every man who has been a member of 
Philo. 

In presenting this work the editors are aware of its many 
defects, but they beg the indulgence of the reader, calling atten- 
tion to the fact that they have been hampered by their ignorance 
as amateurs, and by the inaccessibility of the desired informa- 
tion. Every fact of history in this volume has been as far as 
possible tested by the records of the Society and the memories 
of the alumni. Corroboration of details has been no small part 
of the work. Every living member of the Society has been 
communicated with at least twice during the past eighteen 
months; some more than twice; for those who were prominent 
during Junior membership already know well how often the 
editors have bothered them. Therefore, the editors hope the 
Senior members will overlook the faults of the volume, and 



will recognize that every effort has been made to render it as 
complete and accurate as circumstances allow. 

To those who are not members of Philo, the editors offer 
their work as a memorial of the one hundred years* unbroken 
existence of the Society, and as a testimony that Philo has always 
done her duty by her sons. 

THE EDITORS. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PAGE 

THE SOCIETY IN 1913 ........ . . : . . . 9 

THE MODERATORS ". . 11 

HISTORICAL ADDRESS OF PROF. CHEYNEY . . 19 

ADDRESS OF C. F. CRUSE AT SEMI-CENTENNIAL 33 

ADDRESS OF F. A. LEWIS AT CENTENNIAL 45 

REPORT OF ROSETTA STONE COMMITTEE 63 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 71 

THE MODERATORS OF THE CLASS OF 1890 79 

THE PHILOMATHEAN COMMENCEMENTS 81 

THE PHILOMATHEAN DEBATES 89 

WINNERS OF PHILOMATHEAN PRIZES 107 

PHILOMATHEANS IN THE VARSITY DEBATES 119 

WINNERS OF THE FRAZIER PRIZE 120 

THE PHILOMATHEAN BOWL 121 

THE PHILOMATHEAN PLAYS 127 

PHILOMATHEANS AMONG OFFICERS OF UNIVERSITY 139 

CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS . .141 



THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY, 1913 

Moderator 

RANDOLPH G. ADAMS, '14 

First Censor Second Censor 

WALLACE G. ARNOLD, '14 ROBERT E. DENGLER, '15 



Secretary 
CHAS. C. BUTTERWORTH, '15 

Librarian 
ROBERT A. ARRISON, '15 



Treasurer 
HERMAN F. BRALL, '15 

Recorder 
ELWOOD L. HAINES, '16 



Junior Members 



RANDOLPH G. ADAMS, '14 
WALLACE G. ARNOLD, '14 
RODNEY T. BONSALL, '14 
EARLSTON L. HARGETT, '14 
L. ARTHUR SYLVESTER, '14 
PAU-SUNG WONG, '14 
ALLAN C. HOPKINS, '14 
HENRY G. SWENEY, '15 
WALTER F. KUHN, '14 
KARL R. ALDEN, '15 

*LORREN W. GARLICHS, '15 
CHAS. C. BUTTERWORTH, '15 

*DONALD R. JONES, '15 
GEORGE J. KILGUS, '14 
W. FLOYD CLINGER, '14 
ROBERT A. ARRISON, '15 
HERMAN F. BRALL, '15 
RALPH E. CLELAND, '15 
ROBERT E. DENGLER, '15 
ELWOOD L. HAINES, '16 
MILTON L. HEINTZLEMAN, '16 
CHARLES R. MEYER, '16 
W. ALAN PENDLETON, '16 
EDWARD R. ANSCHUTZ , '16 
WILLIAM F. BYRON, '14 



THOMAS A. FOULKE, '16 
NATHAN R. C. FRETZ, '15 
CLARENCE E. FURST, '16 
ELMER C. WIRTZ, '16 
HAROLD S. GOULSON, '16 
CARLE E. HENRY, '16 
FRANCIS B. MILLIGAN, '16 
HARRIS A. HAMLIN, '16 
ROBERT E. SPILLER, '17 
NATHAN P. ARNOLD, '17 
ARTHUR G. THORP, '14 
SIDNEY SANDERSON, '15 
ERNEST C. GOULD, '16 
THEODORE PITCAIRN, '17 
CLAUDE W. DUDLEY, '16 
ARNOLD D. BELCHER, '17 
GEORGE F. KEARNEY, '17 
CHAS. R. HOLLENBACH, '17 
J. DEAN ARMSTRONG, '17 
CALVIN PHILIPS, Jr., '17 
FRANK H. BUSH, '17 
FRANKLIN ATLEE, '16 
EDGAR M. LUTTGEN, '17 
HERBERT M. RAFETTO, '17 
H. C. DODD, '17 



IRWIN BOESHORE, '15 

Special Members 
MORRISON C. BOYD, P.G., G. LEVERING ARNHOLD, '15 L. 



* Absent on leave. 1913-14. 



MODERATORS 

OF 

THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 



NOTE 

The order and spelling of the Moderators' names are taken 
from the Catalogue of the Officers and corrected from the Minute 
Books and the Recorder's Roll. Abbreviations and omitted 
initials are adapted from the Recorder's Roll. Full names will 
be found in the Catalogue of the Members. 



MODERATORS OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 



1 . Christian F. Cruse 

2. William Aug. Muhlenberg 

3. Christian F. Cruse 

4. George B. Wood 

5. Nicholas Hammond 

6. Nicholas Hammond 

7. Nicholas Hammond 

8. Tho. L. Boileau 

9. John M. Jackson 

10. Timothy W. Coe 

1 1 . George Read 

1 2. John N. Conynham 

13. Benjamin Rush Rhees 

1 4. Theophilus Parvin 

15. J. M. Staughton 

16. James Murray Mason 

17. Peter Van Pelt 

1 8. Theophilus Parvin 

19. Samuel M. Fox 

20. Francis P. Corbin 

21. Robert J. Walker 

22. Henry D. Gilpin 

23. Wm. A. Read 

24. Henry Riley 

25. Saml. S. Cochran 

26. Jno. Rodman Paul 

27. Robt. Watson 

28. John Reade, Jr. 

29. C. B. Jaudon 

30. C. W. Nassau 

31. C. B. Jaudon 

32. C. W. Nassau 



33. George Brinton 

34. William J. Reese 

35. Robert Jos. Thompson 

36. Ra: Far: Izard 

37. Robert Jos. Thompson 

38. Samuel Meredith 

39. John Hall 

40. 'Samuel Meredith 

41. George M. Wharton 

42. G. S. Benson 

43. R. P. DuBois 

44. Jos. D. Fox 

45. R. P. DuBois 

46. Edward Kemp 

47. Saml. G. Clarkson 

48. Jos. D. Fox 

49. Thomas Harper, Jr. 

50. Vincent L. Bradford 

51. Henry H. Reed 

52. George Fox, Jr. 

53. Vincent L. Bradford 

54. Thomas L. Bowie 

55. Jos. Abbot, Jr. 

56. Jno. Ashhurst 

57. R. B. Davidson 

58. Joseph Carson 

59. Thomas L. Bowie 

60. Frederic Beasley 

61. William T. Goldsborough 

62. T. C. Cadwalader 

63. Edwd. Hallowell, Jr. 

64. Geo. W. Norris 



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65. Saml. F. Dubois 

66. George Sharswood 

67. Edward Miller 

68. T. Learning Smith 

69. George Sharswood 

70. G. Robert Smith 

71. Jno. B. Chapman 

72. John Robertson 

73. Jno. B. Chapman 

74. Jos. Wharton 

75. Chas. Theo. Potts 

76. Wm. P. Johnston 

77. Wm. D. Baker 

78. John Fries Frazer 

79. W. G. Caldcleugh 

80. John P. Jones 

81. Henry W. Richardson 

82. John C. Carpentier 

83. Alexander Murray McIIvaine 

84. Geo. C. Carson 

85. Kingston Goddard 

86. Jno. McKinley 

87. Wm. W. Smith 

88. William N. McLeod 

89. John Brown Parker 

90. Clark Hare 

91. Edward Ingersoll 

92. Robert Young Black 

93. Alexander McKinley 

94. George L. Taylor 

95. Charles L. Borie 

96. John Bohlen 

97. John P. Montgomery 

98. Austin A. Phelps 

99. John Bohlen 

100. Alexander Biddle 

101. Lewis A. Scott 

102. John G. Smith 

103. J. Williams Biddle 



104. Jno. D. Bryant 

105. Henry E. Montgomery 

106. Wm. B. Taylor 

107. Henry W. Ducachet 

108. Thomas S. Harper 

109. Jas. R. Ford 

110. Samuel K. Ashton 

111. M.Stille 

112. William S. McP. Hill 

113. J. D. Sergeant 

114. G. Mallet Prevost 

1 1 5. Samuel Jarden 

116. Morton P. Henry 

117. G.D. Coleman 

118. Saml.M.Shute 

119. Daniel Kendig 

120. J. Barlow Reynolds 

121. Wm. B. Musgrave 

122. Henry S. Lowber 

123. William H. Crabbe 

124. Henry Fling 

125. Caldwell K. Biddle 

126. James Ely 

127. Charles F. Burgin 

128. S. Wylie Crawford, Jr. 

129. Enoch C. Brewster 

130. Wm. White Montgomery 

131. Charles Hartshorne 

132. John Hughes 

133. Thomas Newbold 

134. John Hughes 

135. James Darrach 

136. Wylie McLeod 

137. James Darrach 

138. Isaac 0. Blight 

139. Thos. M. Wetherill 

140. George A. Jenks 

141. A. CookDurbin 

142. Thos. L. Hildebum 



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JAMES MURRAY MASON, '18 

Confederate Commissioner with Slidell to 

Great Britain and France 




Courtesy of Historical Society of Pcnnsylcanic 

HENRY DILWORTH GILPIN, '19 
Attorney-General of the United States 




GEORGE SHARSWOOD, '28 
Chief-Justice of Supreme Court of Penn- 
sylvania 




HENRY MORTON, '57 
Founder of Stevens Institute of Technology 



FOUR FAMOUS MODERATORS 



143. Edward D. Porter 

144. J. Aspinwall Hodge 

145. Benoni Lockwood 

146. Brinton Cox, Jr. 

147. Dorsey Cox 

148. Gideon Scull, Jr. 

149. Harry N. Paul 

150. William H. Durbin 

151. Wm. Thomson 

1 52. James H. Hutchinson 

1 53. James H. Hutchinson 

154. Joseph D. Newlin 

155. H. Lenox Hodge 

156. Sam. Dickson 

157. Wm. Henry Badger 

158. E.C. Pechin 

159. Richard L. Ashhurst 

160. John Ashhurst, Jr. 

161. S. Huntington Jones 

162. Henry Morton 

163. Charles B. Penrose 

164. W.W.Frazier 

165. Geo. T. Bispham 

166. Edw. B.Hodge 

167. Chas. T. McMullin 

168. Chas. E. Buckwalter 

169. D.B.Willson 

170. George W. Powell 

171. W.W. White 

172. C. D. Hartranft 

173. M.P.Jones 

174. C.J. Little 

175. Skipwith Wilmer 

176. C. C. Harrison 

177. Edward Watson 

178. Wm. Rawle Brooke 

179. C.P.Perkins 

1 80. George Oakman 

181. Howard Wood 



182. R. Somers Hays 

183. Robt. E. McDonald 

184. Geo. W. Hodge 

185. W. W. Newton 

186. Thomas D. Stichter 

187. J. B. Morgan 

188. I. Minis Hays 

189. J.W.Hoffman 

190. Edward F. Pugh 

191. Gerald F. Dale, Jr. 

192. Robt. Frazer, Jr. 

1 93. Ewing Jordan 

194. Gustavus B. Horner 

195. Edward F. Hoffman 

196. R.Adams, Jr. 

197. R. Francis Wood 

198. G. P. Allen 

199. H. Galbraith Ward 

200. Geo. M. Christian 

201. Alexander J. Miller 

202. Herbert Welsh 

203. Hampton L. Carson 

204. Wm. G. Freedley 

205. Geo. T. Purves 

206. Frank L. Sheppard 

207. Richd. C. Dale 

208. Charles A. Young 

209. Coleman Sellers 

210. W. F. Whitaker 

21 1. Jos. DeForrest Junkin 

212. Albert B. Williams 

213. Chas. A. Ashburner 

214. Chas. W. Freedley 

215. William W. Porter 

216. John W. Townsend 

217. William C. Bullitt 

218. Lawrence Lewis, Jr. 

219. William L. Saunders 

220. George Stanley Philler 



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221. Charles Irving Junkin 260. 

222. Francis Albert Lewis 261. 

223. Edward G. McCollin 262. 

224. Wm. P. Breed, Jr. 263. 

225. Edward G. Mcllvaine 264. 

226. John Marshall Gest 265. 

227. George Wood Bissell Roberts 266. 

228. H. S. Prentiss Nichols 267. 

229. William P. Gest 268. 

230. Geo. Junkin, Jr. 269. 

231 . Charles Wadsworth, Jr. 270. 

232. James Hamilton Robins 271. 

233. G. H. Freedley 272. 

234. Severe Mallet-Prevost 273. 

235. Thompson S. Westcott 274. 

236. Gustavus Remak, Jr. 275. 

237. Edwin F. Lott 276. 

238. John W. Savage 277. 

239. Logan M. Bullitt 278. 

240. Francis E. Smiley 279. 

241. John Stokes Adams 280. 

242. Clarence W. Taylor 281. 

243. Frank Lambader, Jr. 282. 

244. James Collins Jones 283. 

245. Howard L. Cresswell 284. 

246. John S. Fernie 285. 

247. Crawford D. Hening 286. 

248. W. W. Frazier, Jr. 287. 

249. Edward M. Jefferys 288. 

250. Andre W. Seguin 289. 

251. Henry Clay Adams 290. 

252. Robt. B. Salter, Jr. 291. 

253. Horace C. Richards 292. 

254. Lightner Witmer 293. 

255. Dickinson S. Miller 294. 

256. J. Clayton Mitchell 295. 

257. Chas. Newton Clement Brown 296. 

258. Elliston J. Perot 297. 

259. Hugh W. Ogden 298. 



Wm. Herbert Burk 

Josiah Harmar Penniman 

Jas. DeW. Perry, Jr. 

Samuel R. Colladay 

William Gray Knowles 

Ulysses Simpson Schaul 

Clifton Maloney 

Wm. S. Morris 

Robert N. Willson, Jr. 

S. Murdoch Kendrick 

Justin R. Sypher 

George Douglas Codman 

Edmund J. Burk 

Spencer C. Dickson 

Jno. D. McMullin 

Henry N. June 

C. M. Jacobs 

Arthur E. Weil 

John C. Hinckley 

Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst 

Charles L. McKeehan 

Chas. M. Montgomery 

L. H. Marks 

Charles S. Langstroth 

James H. Langstroth 

Burton Scott Easton 

Milton D. Loeb 

J. Morton Boice 

Harry B. Mingle 

James Whitford Riddle, Jr. 

Harold Harrison Tryon 

Wm. Hastings Easton 

Henry Johns Gibbons 

Thomas Francis Cadwalader 

Robert Alexander Beggs 

Calvin 0. Althouse 

Herman G. Cuthbert 

David A. Pitt 

Harold S. Rambo 



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299. Thomas D. Cope 

300. Clinton N. Laird 

301. George A. Walton 

302. Wm. H. G. MacKay 

303. Winton John White 

304. Stanley S. Swartley 

305. J. Barnard Walton 

306. Frederic Anthony Child 

307. Francis Carr Stifler 

308. Edward Wallace Chadwick 

309. William P. Harbeson 

310. Augustus W. Schick 

311. Marcus Elliott 

312. Martin Hays Bickham 

313. Frank Albert Paul 

314. George Wanger 

315. Carl G. F. Franzen 



316. Clement E. Foust 

317. Charles James Cole, Jr. 

318. Carl Hubbard Hoover 

319. Chas. A. Drefs, Jr. 

320. Donald McLeod Lay 

321. John Dolman, Jr. 

322. Albert Rieff Bechtel 

323. Walter Hendricks Renner 

Trumbauer 

324. Gilbert R. Hughes 

325. Samuel L. Shanaman 

326. William Mahoney Crowe 

327. William Dayton Shelley 

328. Carroll Brewster Rhoads 

329. Morrison Comegys Boyd 

330. Wallace Greene Arnold 

331. Randolph Greenfield Adams 



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ADDRESS ON THE 

HISTORY 
OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 




PERSIFOR FRAZER, '62 

Ex-Professor of Medicine in the 

University of Pennsylvania 




EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY, '83 

Professor of European History in the 

University of Pennsylvania 




Photo by E. GolJemly, Phila. 

LIGHTNER WITMER, '88 

Professor of Psychology in the 

University of Pennsylvania 




EDGAR ARTHUR SINGER, '92 

Professor of Philosophy in the 

University of Pennsylvania 



ADDRESS ON THE 
HISTORY OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 

BY 
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY, '83 

"Little of all we value here 
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year 
Without both feeling and looking queer." 

So said Oliver Wendell Holmes: but he was thinking of 
things, or of individual people, not of associations. Organized 
societies do not necessarily grow old. Men grow old, but man 
remains ever young. So it is with Philo. Though in existence 
for a hundred years she is still young, young with the youth of 
perpetual rejuvenation. Every year there is an influx of new and 
youthful blood. It is true that these new men grow old, in a 
college sense; and wearied with the course of four long, laborious 
and eventful years, their shoulders bowed with the weight of 
office, their brows clouded with the perplexities of policy, and 
their minds exhausted by the unsolved problems of many a long 
discussion, they lay aside the responsibility of their official duties 
and suspend their more or less regular attendance. But there is 
always a new generation ready, the officers' chairs do not remain 
empty and the rostrum never relapses into silence. 

This being so, it is not my duty as biographer to describe the 
youth, the manhood, the inevitable senescence and the growing 
decrepitude of a human career, nor as historian to trace the rise, 
the greatness, the decline and fall of a nation, but to put before 
you in a few words the conditions under which this old yet young 
society came into existence, to call attention to a few salient 
points of its subsequent career, and to describe some of its trans- 

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formations in the perpetual process of adaptation to changed 
surroundings which is the necessary condition of all life. 

The Philomathean Society was established in the year 
1813, as the fact that we are now celebrating its centennial indi- 
cates. There is still in our hands the sheet of paper containing 
the declaration of organization and the promise to support the 
Constitution signed by the thirteen original members of the 
Society on the 2d of October of that year. The preliminary 
arrangements had been previously made and the consent of the 
new Provost, Dr. Frederick Beasley, obtained. The approval 
of the Board of Trustees is recorded on their minutes of the 23d 
of November. It is as follows: "The Board sanctions the 
institution of a Literary Society, to consist of the students and 
Alumni of the University or such of them as shall be admitted 
members thereof, and a suitable room shall be appropriated to 
their use." These thirteen founders seem to have been the whole 
senior class of the College. It was the day of small things. We 
were a nation of only six million people. There were then scarcely 
more inhabitants in the whole State of Pennsylvania than there 
are now in West Philadelphia. There were but three members 
of the Faculty: a Professor of Moral Philosophy, a Professor 
of Languages and a Professor of Mathematics. The college 
course was but three years in length. Many of the students 
when they entered were between thirteen and fourteen years of 
age, most of them just above fourteen. The early laws of the 
Society placed fifteen years as the lowest limit for membership 
into its mature ranks, and it was difficult to preserve this standard 
of age. It was seldom that any class numbered more than a 
dozen, still more seldom that the whole College numbered more 
than fifty. The thirteen seniors who founded the Society were 
therefore probably about a quarter of the whole number of 
students in college and were about seventeen years of age, a year 
younger than the average freshman of the present time. 

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The rooms which were granted to the new Society were 
better than the lofty and airy and quiet but far from sumptuous 
quarters the Society now occupies. The building in which the 
University was then housed was the handsome structure described 
in the old prints as the "President's House." It was the first 
"White House." It stood on the west side of Ninth Street 
where the Post Office building now stands, midway between 
Market and Chestnut Streets. It was surrounded by open 
stretches of land extending almost unbroken to the Schuylkill. 
When Philadelphia had been chosen, for the time, as the capital 
of the United States, this building had been erected by the State 
of Pennsylvania as a dwelling place for the President. But it 
was not ready for Washington or Jefferson, and Adams had other 
plans, and with the location of the permanent capital further 
south, the President's house had no reason for existence as such 
and in 1800 had been sold to the University. In 1806 some 
additions were made for the Medical Department. It was in a 
spacious group of rooms in the southeast corner of the third floor 
of the original building that the Society was ensconced. Doubt- 
less by leaning slightly from their southern windows the early 
members of the Society could see the woods and fields beyond the 
river where sixty years later a building was to go up from which 
their successors can now look back on the old site and measure 
the course of the years by the changed world that lies between 
Ninth Street and Thirty-sixth. Is it only a century that sepa- 
rates that world from this? 

Many of the expressions and practices familiar to all Philo 
men date from the very beginning of its existence. The meeting 
night then as now was Friday. The title "Moderator" for the 
presiding officer was adopted at once and the first Moderator 
was elected at the first meeting, while the first Censor Morum 
was elected at the third meeting. The practice of debating and 
the practice of fining members for non-performance were begun 

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promptly and simultaneously at the second meeting Mr. Chew 
having been fined on that occasion 31 J cents. A glimpse of the 
condition of the finances in the outer world is obtained from the 
order shortly afterward that the treasurer should not receive 
in payment for fines any bank notes except those of Philadelphia 
or of New Jersey banks. Another indication of the existence at 
that time of public questions still only partially settled is the 
subject of one of the early debates, "Should women be permitted 
to preach?" This was decided in the negative. 

An echo from a still more distant world is a debate in 1818, 
"Whether any advantages have resulted to Europe by the down- 
fall of Bounaparte?" Most of the debates and discussions, 
however, reflected the classical interests of the time. Compari- 
sons of the merits of Greek and Roman heroes, Latin orations, 
translations of classical prose and verse assigned by the Moderator 
to be handed in to a classical committee, discussions of old Greek 
problems in casuistry or dialectic, seem to have been the staple 
of the literary exercises. Debates were then more perhaps 
than now looked upon as forensic training for lawyers, and the 
early members, therefore, like some in later days, seem to have 
felt that parliamentary contests and impeachment trials were 
equally good for that purpose. Henry Gilpin, Moderator, was 
impeached in a trial that lasted from November, 1 81 7, to February, 
1818, and when he subsequently became Attorney-General of 
the United States he may well have looked back to these experi- 
ences with a new sense of reality. Within this early period the 
Library was founded and public "exhibitions" of orations were 
held, analogous to the prize debates and orations of later days. 
Thus Philo became an established and integral part of the college 
life of the first; half of the century. 

The old Presidential mansion was eventually torn down and 
two buildings erected in its place, one for the Medical School, 
the other for the College. In the latter, Philo was given a new 

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room and at the same time a new neighbor and rival, Zelo, founded 
in 1829. This was the period when Zelosophic, Philalethian, 
Erosophian, Hermetic, Calliopean and other societies with ingen- 
ious classical, especially Greek names, were being founded in 
many American colleges. They were encouraged by the faculties, 
their objects were predominantly literary and they were thus 
quite clearly differentiated from the Greek letter societies, most 
of which indeed came somewhat later. With some of these 
similar societies in other colleges, Philo has entered into debates 
within recent years, though but few of them have had so long a 
continuous existence as she. 

Fifty years passed away and it was time for the Society to 
celebrate its semi-centennial. The students had become a more 
numerous and a somewhat older body. They were now approx- 
imately sixteen years old on entrance to college and there were 
some one hundred and twenty in college. The term had been 
lengthened to four years, and the faculty had been added to 
until the catalogue for 1863 shows six professors. The Law and 
I Scientific Schools had been added to the University, but Philo 
\ still remained distinctly an Arts society, members drawn from 
\my other department being entirely exceptional. The intervening 
half century between 1813 and 1 863 had seen many ups and downs 
in the history of the College and of Philo, but at no time were 
its meetings suspended nor the old customs seriously invaded. 
On the contrary, at certain times its intellectual life was especially 
active, and once at least this intellectual activity was put into a 
material form, the results of which still remain. This was the 
publication of the volume on the Rosetta Stone. In the spring 
of 1856 a member named Conrad presented to the Society a cast 
of the Rosetta Stone and read a paper on the subject of hiero- 
glyphics. Where he got the cast or the interest in that unfamiliar 
subject, history does not record. The incident, however, excited 
some interest, and three other men, Hale, Jones and Morton, 

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took the matter up and induced the Society to appoint them a 
committee to make a report on the puzzling present that had been 
made to them. Becoming more and more deeply interested in 
their task, as intellectual young fellows without too much else 
pressing upon them are apt to do, they not only drew up a manu- 
script report, with a translation, notes and illustrations, but a 
year or so later had the whole work lithographed with colored 
illustrations. All copies were soon bought up and a second 
edition, which was published a year later by the Society, was also 
exhausted. It has long been a rare book now, but fortunately 
copies exist in both the Society and the University Library. 
Serious recognition has been given and should be given to what 
was a serious and meritorious piece of work. Occasionally, as 
we read the annals of the Society, new customs emerge. In 
January, 1847, occurred what appears to have been the first 
Philo-Zelo joint debate. Six Zelo men and five Philo men on 
two successive evenings discussed the highly original question, 
"Was the execution of Charles I justifiable?'* Curiously enough, 
according to modern competitive ideas, the two societies were 
not pitted against one another, some men from each society 
appearing on each side of the question. On the conclusion of 
the debate the decision was given on the question itself, not in 
favor of either society. The relations between the members 
of the two societies were not apparently always restricted to 
the field of debate. In February, 1861, an entry on the minute 
book indicates that on the preceding Friday evening some mem- 
bers of Philo had destroyed some of Zelo's possessions. The 
Society disavows any knowledge of the circumstances but at the 
same time offers to pay the bill for repairs. It is of interest to 
note that at this meeting, among the members present were two 
destined later to become Provosts of the University, William 
Pepper and Charles C. Harrison. The number of members of 
Philo who in later life became prominent is a notable fact, but 

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one perhaps that can hardly be dwelt on with perfectly good taste 
in an assembly so largely made up of the persons concerned. 
However, it may be of interest to remark in discussing the year 
1863, that James Murray Mason, of Mason and Slidell, the Con- 
federate Commissioners who had two years before that date 
been taken by a United States vessel from an English mail steamer 
and almost became the occasion of war between England and 
our country, had been a member of Philo and its sixteenth 
Moderator. 

During this war period, when Philo was rounding out the 
first half century of its existence, occurrences in the outside world 
could not help but be reflected in College and in the Society. 
There were in those days still many members from the South and 
feeling ran high. The election of prominent personages to 
honorary membership was made the means of carrying on political 
quarrels. Major Anderson, President Lincoln, General McCIellan 
and General Rosencrans were at various times nominated and 
according to the changes of majorities, elected, blackballed or 
had the record of previous action upon them expunged from the 
minutes. The Secretary has left the record of the close of the 
meeting of February 27, 1863: "General George McCIellan voted 
on. Blackballed. Former motion in reference to expunging 
names of honorary members recalled. Debated. Intense 
excitement. Question called and lost. Exceeding disorder, 
disgracing the hall, in which it was moved to adjourn. Carried. 

"George E. Oakman, Secretary." 

Some months before, it had been resolved that those members 
who had received leave of absence from the faculty for the purpose 
of entering the service of their country should receive their diplo- 
mas from Philo just as they would from the College. 

The fiftieth anniversary ceremonies of the Society were held 
in the midst of the darkest period of the war. The terrible battle 
of Gettysburg had been fought three months before, the campaign 

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of Chattanooga was just beginning. The country was divided 
in opinion and many doubtful in their loyalty. President Lincoln 
on the very eve of the immortal Gettysburg address was subjected 
to widespread and harsh criticism. Earthworks for the possible 
need of defense of Philadelphia had been thrown up, beginning 
just at the western end of the present dormitories and passing 
in front of the Veterinary building. A quarry, three squares 
west of the new Dental Hall, at Forty-third and Spruce Streets 
was in use as a practice ground for recruits. A corps of University 
students, professors and some who are now trustees was either 
in the field or being held as reserves. At the Philo semi-centennial 
ceremonies, which were held on the 6th of October, speaker after 
speaker referred in tones of grief to the dark cloud hanging over 
the nation, to the seeming set-back in the progress of civilization, 
to the rift in the fabric of our people. 

Now, fifty years later, as we, a nation of more than a hundred 
millions, rejoice in our unbroken and unthreatened unity through 
the whole extent of the national territory, our government for 
the time administered by a man freely chosen by the whole people, 
though a native of one of the states then in rebellion; questions 
of secession and slavery and sectionalism long since settled, or 
relegated to the field of historical interest, and replaced by new 
questions, belonging in the social rather than in the political 
order, we must again pause, astonished by the change, and cry 
as before when we compared the early with the later days, is it 
only half a century that separates that time from this? 

The changes that have come to Philo and the College of which 
Philo is a part, during this half century defy description within 
the bounds of this slight historical outline. The change of loca- 
tion from Ninth Street to its present habitation in West Philadel- 
phia, which typified, just as it made possible, a larger opportunity, 
a larger life, wider ideals; the entrances and the exits of the 
fifty classes of men with all their varying interests and character- 

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sties, the debates, the literary and political contests, the occasional 
courses of lectures which Philo initiated, the entertainments for 
which she was sponsor, the effect on the College of the mere 
continuing existence of a society with its history, its practices 
and its ideals of such materials must its history be made up or 
pictured in the imagination. There are, however, two or three 
forms of its activity that may well receive more concrete mention. 
One of these is its experience in journalism. From the earliest 
times, periodical papers had been prepared in manuscript form, 
were read and continued for a shorter or longer time. Occasion- 
ally a printed journal was established and lived its little life of a 
few months. But in 1 875 the University Magazine was established, 
and published regularly, at first as a monthly and then as a semi- 
monthly, by a committee of the Society and at the Society's 
expense, or rather at its financial risk, since the expenses were as a 
matter of fact always met by its own income. Its files still 
exist intact in the University Library, in the Philadelphia Library 
and in other places. After a life of ten years it was made the 
foundation of a magazine of more general University interest, 
appeal and responsibility, which was to be published by a group 
of editors drawn from the whole University. The merger of the 
University Magazine into the Pennsyhanian was an act of en- 
lightened self-abnegation on the part of the Society and it has 
had its reward in the recognition that it founded the college 
journalism at Pennsylvania which has since developed into one 
daily, one weekly and two monthly magazines. 

The history of college and intercollegiate competitive debat- 
ing has been much the same. The early debates with Zelo have 
already been mentioned. Zelo went out of existence soon after 
1870 and was not re-established until 1892; but soon after this 
time inter-society debates were begun anew and have been con- 
tinued since. Philo has also debated with more or less regularity 
with the Philolexian Society of Columbia, and with other societies 

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at Haverford, North Carolina and other colleges. In 1894 this 
practice was put into more regular form by our entrance into the 
Intercollegiate Debate Union. This membership has in turn 
been placed for the most part in the hands of representatives of 
the College at large as being a wider constituency than the 
Society, and Philo has again played the honorable part of the 
pioneer who recognizes and welcomes the advent of the outlander 
and turns over to him the land that he has surveyed. 

Our part in the dramatic interests of the College was taken 
later and has been more kept within our own hands. Although 
Philo men had taken an active part in the formal classic plays 
given at an early period as part of the Commencement exercises, 
in the Greek play of 1886, in those of the Garrick Club, the 
University Dramatic Association and other such productions, 
it was not until 1909 that as a society she gave a play under her 
own charge, with all the parts taken by her own members. With 
the Society's literary interests and traditions, it was natural to 
seek a subject in the earlier periods of dramatic tradition, and the 
play chosen was the interesting and poetic, "Second Shepherd's 
Play," from the Towneley Cycle of Mystery Plays. It was a great 
success and four plays have been given since, "The Two Angry 
Women of Abington," "Mucedorus," Dekker's "Shoemaker's 
Holiday," and Jonson's "Alchemist." The Society has thus 
established a tradition of excellent acting and a distinctive selec- 
tion of plays of literary and historical interest, and few of her 
activities have given more satisfaction to her Senior members. 

As we approach the present time it becomes less and less 
practicable to give a continuous narrative of events, and the 
historian must yield his place to the orator. Nor is it any part 
of the duty of the historian of the first century of the Society's 
existence to prophesy what will happen in the second. Neverthe- 
less, it is hard to stand on the peak from which one looks back 
over the past and not turn before descending to peer for a moment 

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through the mists into the vague landscape of the future. Is 
there now and will there continue to be a place in College for Philo 
to fill worthy of her past career and sufficiently useful and pleasant 
to justify her continued existence? Many of the functions she 
has fulfilled in the past have now been taken over by other college 
organizations or agencies. Philo has initiated and then passed 
on to other college journalism and much of college debating, and 
there are many other organizations which give the opportunities 
which formerly she alone offered. Has she still a reason for 
existence? That depends on her success or failure in perceiving 
and pursuing and comprehending the most elusive and yet the 
most influential of all spirits, the spirit of the age. We may look 
back lovingly and sometimes even longingly into the past, but 
we cannot safely neglect or be blind to the onward beckoning 
of the spirit of our own time. This spirit is like the neglected 
Dryad who called to Rhcecus, "'tis thou art blind." Just as the 
Society reflected the life of 1813, just as its interests and habits 
fifty years later corresponded to the interests and influences of 
that time, so the Society must now adapt itself to the demands 
and the opportunities of this later period. Philo may well be 
proud of her long career and take satisfaction in the hundred 
years of continuous life that we celebrate tonight. She is a 
noble tree with its roots deeply imbedded in the past; but it is 
into the light and air and sunshine of today that her branches 
and leaves and fruit must be lifted. Subjects of debates may 
well be different from those of a century or of fifty years ago; this 
is a new age. The Society may and doubtless will, as it has done 
in the past, give up some of its old practices and forms and 
requirements and take up new kinds of activity; the college of 
today is very different from the college of a hundred or of fifty 
years ago. On the other hand, many of the attractions of Philo, 
its good fellowship, its mingled appeal to the social and intellectual 
interests of men, the occasional opportunity for the exchange 

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of special intimacies, these and many other things are perennial 
and but little affected by the passage of time. Moreover, the 
Society whose junior members now in this hundredth year of its 
existence show the interest, the energy, the perseverance, and the 
maturity that has marked the work of their representatives, the 
young men who have prepared this celebration, will not want 
for the thoughtfulness or insight or other qualities that will give 
it permanence. 

And now as I began this address with a quotation from 
Holmes in his lighter vein, may I close with a no less familiar 
quotation from him, but one representing his more thoughtful 
mood? It is a few lines from the "Chambered Nautilus." Have 
we not been looking back on the earlier rooms of the Society 
where, like that of the Nautilus, 

"its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell," 

and in successive stages of the Society's existence, again like the 
Nautilus, it 

". . . left the past year's dwelling for the new, 

Stole with soft steps its shining archway through, 

Built up its idle door, 

Stretched in its last-found home, and knew the old no more." 

And of the Society as of the soul of man, we can say, 

"Build thee more stately mansions, my soul! 

As the swift seasons roll 

Leave thy low- vaulted past! 
Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast." 



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ADDRESS OF THE REV. DR. CRUSE 




Courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania 

HENRY REED, '25 

Professor of English Literature in 

University of Pennsylvania 

1831-1854 



JOHN G. R. McELROY, '62 

Professor of English Literature in 

University of Pennsylvania 

1867-1890 





Photo by Gutekunst 

FELIX E. SCHELLING, '81 

Professor of English Literature in 

University of Pennsylvania 

1888 to date 



Photo by J. M. Elliot 

CORNELIUS WEYGANDT, '92 

Professor of English Literature in 

University of Pennsylvania 

1908 to date 



ADDRESS OF THE REV. DR. CRUSE. 

Read at the Semi-Centennial of the Society, October 6, 1863. 

Gentlemen: Assembled as we are for the purpose of com- 
memorating the day from which we date the existence of this 
Society, I must cast myself upon your indulgence, in opening the 
subject, for the remarks that I may offer. We are now entering 
upon the fiftieth year since the organization in 1813, so that our 
Society, though not fifty years old, has reached its fiftieth year, 
and will be at its close just half a century in being. Thus, 
though not as venerable for age as many similar societies, its 
duration has evinced a principle of vitality, which we trust and 
believe will be as perpetual as the honored Alma Mater which 
gave it birth, and wish that the maturer child may live with its 
mother until the consummation of all things, supplying the 
material for the nurture of literature, virtue and religion until 
the end. 

It is not the least among the reasons for mutual congratula- 
tion on the present occasion, that besides the many distinguished, 
respected and esteemed names that appear on your catalogue, or 
that are here with us now, there are so many of the few that 
participated in the formation yet living, and of these again what 
is still more worthy of note, that of those who were elected to sit 
under the canopy, the first three are still among us (and present 
with us). How it came to pass that your present chairman was 
made first Moderator, or that the second Moderator, the Rev. 
Dr. Muhlenberg, was not the first, I do not explain, unless it was 
the accidental difference of seniority that influenced the choice, 
but for which you and I would have the pleasure now of listen- 
ing to the opening address of my reverend friend and brother 

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the second Moderator with much more satisfaction, I am sure, 
than I can give. I could equally wish to yield the chair to our 
common friend Dr. George B. Wood, whose merit and well- 
known eminence in his profession have long since justified the 
election of the third Moderator. Your present chairman is 
happy to say that if it were a case of any competition at all he 
would not only on the score of esteem and friendship, but of solid 
merit in their favor, respectfully decline it. 

In looking back upon the long series of years that have 
passed away since the first measures were taken to give a per- 
manent form to this retiring literary arena, we have a long line 
of those from year to year enlisted in the career of literary attain- 
ments, which shows that the Society has not been without 
contributing its quota to the general mind, and though it must, 
in the nature of things, expect to share in the great law of univer- 
sal change, yet it will, and must, as long as it endures, continue 
to furnish its periodic corps of those who by this voluntary 
discipline of scholastic life within these walls, will be ready to 
enter upon that more trying discipline which awaits us all in 
practiced life. And there, indeed, we need all the discipline we 
can gather in the schools to keep our lamps unextinguished 
whilst bred spatio mutantur sxcla animantum et quasi cursores 
vital lampada tradunL It is now just half a century since the 
then senior class of this University entertained the proposition 
and carried it through to form a society, the objects of which 
should be congenial with and promotive of the studies prosecuted 
in the classes. It was to be for mental, what the old gymna- 
sium was for bodily strength, an arena for mutual improvement, 
where the precaution of secrecy was rather a shield for the dif- 
fident, and the encouragement of retiring merit, too often uncon- 
scious of its capacity (by its tendency to isolation). After some 
informal meetings and conferences the subject was submitted to 
the Provost for approval, and the organization and constitution 

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completed under the title of "The Philomathean Society of the 
University of Pennsylvania." This was not indeed the first 
attempt of the kind in the collegiate department of the Univer- 
sity; others had been made before, but none of them survived 
the class that formed it. Of one of these the anecdote is told, 
known to most of us, that it became more noted for its noisy 
sessions or adjournments than its improvement. The Provost 
being requested to suggest a name having the three labials 
TTt fi7)Ta, <f)i t is said to have hinted whether they might not be 
called the Polyphloisbaan TroXix^Xoto-^oiai/ Society. History does 
not say whether they accepted the name or not, but its sub- 
sequent silence seems to imply they either profited by the pleas- 
antry to solicit no characteristic name at least, or else they 
allowed the class to pass on without further effort to revive a 
society. It was after several such attempts to establish a lit- 
erary association among the students had failed, that the Philo- 
mathean Society was formed; it was at a time also when a new 
period was ushered in by a complete change in the faculty of the 
collegiate department, and when the then senior class that formed 
the Society had passed from one Provost to another, with the 
disadvantage of an interregnum before the new faculty was 
settled. It is not our purpose to enter into particulars, but in 
order to understand the better the relative position of the then 
senior class and the bearing upon the formation of the Society, it 
seems enough to state that whether it was advantage or dis- 
advantage the class had passed through the regime of three 
Provosts successively at the time of its commencement. 

The Rev. Dr. Andrews, Provost at the time of our entrance 
into college, was at the head of the University, but did not sur- 
vive the first year of our collegiate course. His decease was 
followed by an interval of some months under the Rev. Dr. 
McDowell, who once held the Provostship, and during whose 
temporary superintendence to supply the place of Dr. Andrews, 

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the Rev. Dr. Beasly was called to fill the station. Dr. Robert 
Patterson was at the same time appointed Professor of Mathemat- 
ics and Natural Philosophy, and Mr. James Thompson Professor 
of Languages, forming thus a new faculty. It was about the 
time of these changes and the concomitant organization that the 
proposal was made and carried into effect to form a Society of 
Students of the University with a view to literary and scientific 
scholarship. 

At this time there was yet standing in unimpaired finish 
that once admired structure reared by Pennsylvania as a resi- 
dence for the President of the United States, and intended 
especially for the first President, General Washington. Most of 
us well remember, it was on the present square, midway between 
Market and Chestnut Streets, and for a long time even after its 
destination was changed, was known as the President's House. 
The President we know never occupied it, and declined it as 
a present, and it was then conveyed to the trustees of the 
University. 

In the southeast corner of this edifice, on the third floor, over- 
looking a then large extent of vacant grounds, there was, as 
many of us will recollect, a fine, spacious room some twenty-five 
feet square, which, together with two smaller rooms adjoining, 
was assigned to us as Philomathean Hall. There it was that we 
began the Society now entered upon its fiftieth year. It was 
of course a time of much interest to the class, and we could wish 
the old building were still in existence as a monument of interest- 
ing facts now fading from memory. 

In this rapid glance at the Society's origin, we are reminded 
by the retrospect, of the interesting period of history that fills up 
the interval and makes it altogether unsurpassed by any other 
period since the beginning of the Christian era. The world may 
be said to be almost entirely revolutionized within this half cent- 
ury, not by arms, but by the arts of peace. It was a great 

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change, a marked revolution, when Christianity first triumphed 
over political paganism a great change when, in after ages, the 
art of printing made the thoughts of one man the thoughts and 
views of thousands and tens of thousands almost as soon as he 
could commit them to the pen a great change initiated by the 
discovery of Columbus, and still more important changes at the 
period of the Reformation. But all these appear to us at this 
day only preparatory, tributary movements towards the rapid, 
wondrous developments of the nineteenth century. The world 
has unraveled more of its own resources for the benefit of man 
than in any period heretofore. 

A terrible and dark cloud has indeed come over us, in the fair 
and flattering calculations for the future of the age, and here at 
least in our country we have been compelled to pause in our 
conclusions, by the long-dreaded calamities of a civil war 

The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared. 

Its bloody rain is dropping, 
The poisonous plant the fathers spared, 

All else is overtopping. 

Yet as we mourn the sad necessity which for a time at least 
seems to arrest the progress of civilization and to defeat the 
hopes of a republic like ours a republic in theory at least, only 
consistent with principles of universal emancipation I say as we 
lament this seeming interruption to the progressive march of 
light, right and truth, I believe that, after all, when the storm 
is over, we shall have more reason to rejoice in its results than 
we now have or shall have to mourn over its sorrows. The 
wheel of time cannot go back. The law of God's universe is 
onward! and seeming retrocessions are only seeming. They are 
like signals to the halting traveler to a near and better road 
where he may find more safety, more certainty to reach his 
destination. And though, as in our national crisis now, the 

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halting progress is fraught with pain, anxiety and blood, and 
great the sacrifices to cast out the evil spirit that has brought 
about this national calamity, yet a due acknowledgment of this 
may help us, under God, to a perfect cure of the evil. And 
though we may be called to a yet severer trial than that now is, 
yet we may meet it with God on our side. 

"For who that leans on His right arm 

Was ever yet forsaken? 
What righteous cause can suffer harm, 
If He its part has taken." 

We naturally turn from the past to the future, that future 
which to us all is expected, canvassed, scanned and almost meas- 
ured by our hopes and fears, and to which we look forward for 
the solution of the past. We hail the anniversary with mutual 
congratulations, and best wishes, and prayers for times to come 
an interesting time undoubtedly to all, to none more so than 
to those few of us who were instrumental in giving the Society 
an existence which has thus far stood the test, and which by all 
the indications of the present gives an earnest of perpetuated 
vitality. To none can it be a time of deeper interest in its remi- 
niscences than to your first presiding officers, who, at the end of 
so long a series of years, are yet in the land of the living, and 
though not all present may send their gratulations to the assem- 
bled members in Philomathean Hall. And as we cast our eye 
into that mysterious future, not knowing what even a day may 
bring forth, how many earnest questions press upon us which 
we should be glad to resolve or see resolved into a happy issue. 

Fifty years ago, with all the party ferments that have come 
and gone, we still had peace within our borders. We all settled 
down in the belief that the United States was our country, and 
whether born North or South in Maine or Georgia, in Boston 
or Charleston the one was as much our country as the other. 

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Sectional differences might, as they always will, create partial- 
ities, but the great interests were one. But since those days alas, 
how changed! quantum mutatus ab illo! The young giant had 
grown strong and mighty but a reptile had been fed and 
nutured at his side until, outgrowing all control of law and right, 
it has dealt the virus of its posion against the hand that fostered 
it, and now a gigantic struggle, more fearful than that of the 
fabled Titans, is the present war. 

Whatever be the result of this our national struggle, although 
we cannot but believe it will terminate in favor of justice and 
humanity; whoever among the senior members of the Society 
may live to see the end, there are none that can expect to see 
another fiftieth. If any of the classes survive the present so 
long, then indeed they will have something like a parallel with 
the day we have reached. 

In the comparison we are reminded of the sacred rites of 
the fabled Prometheus, where the torch-race from the grove of 
Academus to the city stimulated the Grecian youth to a contest 
of speed in which we see an expressive symbol of the career of 
life. The race itself started from the altar of Prometheus. The 
racers, with lighted torches kindled at the altar, were to vie with 
each other in bearing the torch unextinguished to the goal. 
Whoever gave out handed his torch to the nearest racer. One of 
great authority, in allusion to these races, has said, "So run that 
ye may obtain." There is a race of life where, like the prizes 
in the games, there is something to be obtained. Cicero, in 
reference to these Promethean sacred rites, observes, as it does 
not imply that he who receives the torch has been swifter of 
foot than the one who has delivered it, so in life the one that 
yields is not always the inferior, and so we are not to judge the 
merits of the race by one feature alone. Yet he alone was 
crowned who brought his burning lamp to the goal. And thus 
also with peculiar fitness the analogy applies to every generous 

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emulation. In the symbolic device of the Society, the burning 
lamp, supplied by human hand, seems only like a part or prelim- 
inary of the Promethean race. The nurturings of diligent care 
and study cherishing the lamp of mind, as the only ground of 
solid excellence, becomes a torch-race at the altar of Prometheus. 
For though there may be other ways of ascending to the skies 
besides a course of study, yet it is as true now as it was of old. 
"Nihil sine labor e vita mortalibus dedit." What the old Roman 
(Lucretius) has made the picture of life in the Lampadedromia is 
as applicable to every institution aspiring to excellence. So 
the participants of Philomathean Hall have no objects in view 
but the great concerns of life. The association is a Promethean 
torch-race where, class after class, a portion retire handing over 
the unextinguished light to others. So the lamp of mind is kept 
burning, from one, through years of succession where every 
generation is expected to preserve what has been transmitted, 
whilst these again deliver up the trust undiminished, unimpaired 
to the next 

Sic, quasi cursores Vitai lampada tradunt. 

Among the good effects resulting from the Society, there has 
been the formation of another, with similar or the same objects 
in view, under the same auspices of the College; its very name, 
indicative of zeal, combined with wisdom, is an indirect tribute to 
the Philomethean Hall, which it proposes to rival. May it be 
to both a generous competition, an emulation in which each 
society will find its advantage only in honoring each other's 
merits and following what is good. 

After all, it reminds us of the great lesson that underlies all 
others, life is the career for us all, and it has its cares, its duties, 
its responsibilities. Grave considerations these, and that we may 
finish our course with the humble hope that we have not lived in 
vain. As the race must be run, so the lamp must be kept burn- 

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ing. It is the lamp of mind that needs all nurturing care, it is 
the oil of truth that must feed the flame, it is the hand of virtue, 
humanity and righteousness that must hold it up in the race and 
make it available for all that is good and great. A noble prob- 
lem, a noble strife, an emulation that lives only in the desire of 
doing good and which, like angels in heaven, will rejoice over 
one sinner that repenteth. It is an emulation which, descending 
from heaven, is planted as a ladder on earth for us to ascend, and 
is thus to be the moving power of every onward step in the 
torch-race of life. For the Grecian youth the altar of Prometheus 
was erected in the groves of the Academy, and the race was 
thence to the city of Minerva. The altar itself was the symbol 
of forecast, ingenuity, invention, and the rival racers symbolized 
the candidates in science, literature and the arts. 

In this Promethean age in which we live, this age of artistic 
invention and scientific application, we may well find a parallel 
to the ancient fables, with perhaps the great difference, that our 
facts are stranger than their fictions. We have no Promethean 
altar indeed at which to kindle the lamp of mind, and our 
onward strides to the goal of approval have no sympathy with 
those that sped their course to the walls of Athens. But we 
have our light taken, not from the structure made with hands, 
but from that light which, coming from on high, is only another 
name for eternal truth. Nurtured from that fountain it can 
never die away, but advancing, ascending, rising high as its 
source, must grow and spread and rule from age to age and the 
consummation of ages. 

With such difference in our favor, we have also a nobler race 
to run, a nobler prize to win. It may not be glory, it may not be 
fame, it may not be wealth or power or even health, but it will 
be above all the approval of our own hearts and the approval of 
Him who is greater than our heart. What more than this we 
need shall be dealt out largely for that is the Almighty verdict 

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they shall be added. We shall all have sufficient in the 
struggle here to gain the prize there, and when the torch-race of 
life is run we shall resign the lamp of mind, unextinguished here 
only to revive in the immortal splendor of that hereafter which 
knows no extinction or decay. 

Allow me, gentlemen, in conclusion, to thank you for this 
attention by which I have been honored, and as it is the last 
occasion in which I can expect to share in your transactions, so 
I may at this stage, at least, and as one of the racers hand the 
lamp to another. Gentlemen, as we have met now, we shall 
never meet again, our present forms an epoch which can only 
be realized once in a lifetime, and before another semi-centennial 
celebration, we shall not any of us have occasion, call, or even 
interest in the race. A sober, solemn thought, but no dream. 

Happy, if then, in obedience to the behests of Sovereign 
Goodness, we must retire from the arena, we may, with cheer- 
fulness, give place to those that follow, with the consciousness 
that whilst we may not have done always what we would, we 
have done at least in the direction of right, what we could. 

Failures here, indeed, may again create a pause, but as in 
the career of life, so in its termination, the universal remedy is 
only there, where we find the universal good. 

Et sic faventibus cobis lampada trado. 



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CENTENNIAL ORATION 




Courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania 

HON. JOHN CADWALADER, '21 

U. S. Judge of Eastern District of 

Pennsylvania 




HON. JOHN INNES CLARK HARE, '34 

President Judge of Court of Common Pleas 

No. 2, Philadelphia 





Courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania 

HON. FREDERICK CARROLL BREWSTER, '41 

Judge of Court of Common Pleas, 

Philadelphia 



HON. HENRY GALBRAITH WARD, 70 

U. S. Circuit Judge Eastern District of 

New York 



ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHILOMATHEAN 

SOCIETY AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, 

DECEMBER 13, 1913 

BY 
FRANCIS A. LEWIS, ESQ. 

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Philomathean Society, Ladies and 

Gentlemen: 

If one is inclined to be conventional upon an occasion such 
as this, he has a clear and easy path marked out for him. 

Philadelphia might be described as the home of Centennials 
beginning with 1876 and continuing down to the present time 
there have been numberless anniversaries commemorating vari- 
ous events of more or less importance. Like world's fairs, they 
have been worked overtime. There has been a degree of same- 
ness about them which has rather wearied people largely, I 
venture to think, because too much stress has been laid upon the 
historical side of the event. 

The original laudator temporis acti was, I am quite sure, a 
Philadelphian, and he left innumerable descendants. He is a 
character I never admired. The man with ancestors never 
appealed to me. To his ancestors I have no objection what- 
ever, doubtless they were excellent people, but they are dead 
long since and their descendants are only too willing to shine 
by a reflected light. To put it concretely, I am much more 
interested in what a man is now doing than what his ancestors 
did. A number of patriotic societies came into being as an echo 
of the centennial spirit, which to me have been sources of peren- 
nial amusement. With stately tread they march annually to 

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church to hear about Washington, and on a pleasant June 
day by boat or train start on a pilgrimage to some historic spot; 
an oration is delivered, good food and drink abound, and they 
return thoroughly convinced that something has been accom- 
plished. 

The societies have no doubt justified their existence so 
have cemeteries. 

I shall spend no time upon a consideration of the past 
of the Philomathean Society, this has already been handled 
and well handled. That we are an old and honorable organiza- 
tion goes without the saying or we should not have survived; but 
no organization is worth maintaining unless it can meet the 
pragmatic test. 

Instead therefore of indulging in a series of laudatory 
remarks which could be strung out to an indefinite length, I 
prefer to use the brief time at my disposal to consider what I 
deem to be an important, modern question. To this Society I 
owe a debt, a great debt, that no statute of limitations can bar, 
and it is because I want to discharge some small portion of that 
debt that I am here tonight. 

It is nearly two score years since I retired as Moderator, in 
the spring of 1877. That is a long time in any one's life. I 
know full well the misconstruction to which one renders himself 
liable if he refers to himself and any successes he may have had 
and I shall not fall into any such trap, but I do not think what I 
say ought to be open to misconstruction if I remark that what- 
ever influence be it ever so small that I have been able to exert, 
has been largely due to being able to talk to and reason with 
bodies of people and how to do this I chiefly learned in yonder 
building on Friday nights at the regular meetings of this Society. 
The Philomathean is nothing more nor less than a debating 
society and debating means the ability to think and talk on one's 
feet. So I naturally drift into my subject. I want to talk to 

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you rather informally and in no sense oratorically about Public 
Speaking. I shall consider its value, and the conditions that go 
to make it successful. 

The number who are worth listening to as speakers today is 
lamentably small. Why is this so? Men are not lacking either 
in knowledge or intelligence ; the average man can express himself 
forcibly and effectively in conversation, but put him on his feet 
his knees begin to shake, and he stammers out his feeble remarks 
in disjointed sentences to which it is painful to listen. We all 
know this from experience. Stage fright is usually assigned as 
the cause, but this is only another name for self-consciousness. 
It is a condition which most men find it absolutely impossible 
to overcome. Unless one can overcome stage fright he had 
better refrain from speaking. Your attitude to an audience of a 
thousand people must be exactly the same as your attitude 
toward the man who sits next you at dinner and with whom you 
are conversing on some interesting subject. The only way to 
get confidence is to forget yourself. 

It is well at the outset that I define what I mean by Public 
Speaking. I do not refer to Essays or to Papers prepared and 
read upon a thousand different subjects. Those who read them 
do not pretend to be public speakers. The pulpit, the stump, 
the public dinner, what may be called public meetings or meet- 
ings held to arouse interest in some project, and legislative 
bodies, about enumerate the occasions upon which the public 
speaker is in evidence. 

A word as to sermons I think it is pretty generally 
admitted that the average modern sermon is a failure, in that 
it really does not interest anybody very much. I have no quar- 
rel with the clergy at all, but preaching is not generally their 
forte. There are many reasons why this is so, but the chief 
one is that every message must from a sermon standpoint be of 
a conventional length. A man may have a good message which 

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he can deliver forcibly and sufficiently in ten minutes, but he 
must string it out to twenty-five, else church will be out too soon, 
and the redundancy spoils it. On the other hand, he may have a 
message which an hour would scarce suffice to deliver but that 
would keep church in too long. The result is the same in both 
cases the message is a failure. I have, however, neither the 
time nor the inclination to dwell on sermons. It is a subject in 
itself, and I make but this passing reference to it. Now a 
word as to oratory. 

When we lament, as we sometimes do, the decadence of 
what is called oratory, some things must be borne in mind. 
Daniel Webster was certainly one of the greatest public speakers 
of his day, an old-fashioned orator. An aged resident of this 
city told me recently of a testimonial dinner given to Webster in 
Philadelphia in the late forties. Daniel was the only speaker 
and he spoke four hours. 

That day is past and gone. It is nothing to say that we 
have no one who can speak four hours, the answer is that if we 
had no one would listen to him. 

The cry is for speakers who will satisfy modern demands, 
not for a return to the ancient style of oratory. 

The familiar story of the man who rose at a dinner and 
inquired "what shall I talk about"? and received the reply from 
one of the diners, "about five minutes," exactly illustrates the 
modern situation. The present-day public crave and appreciate 
good speeches, but they must be brief. Brevity is the soul of 
speech as well as of wit. The difficulty is that not only the 
would-be speakers but the educational institutions are singularly 
blind to what is wanted and do nothing to fit either themselves 
or their pupils for the task. For example, in theological sem- 
inaries there is always a chair of homiletics, which is another 
name for sermon preparation, but the difficulty is that the pro- 
fessor usually is a very indifferent preacher himself. Who shall 

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teach the teacher? The same is true in greater or less degree of 
our educational institutions where the subject is either altogether 
ignored or left in unfit hands. 

Another grave error is the foolish assumption that any man 
distinguished in any particular walk of life can make a speech. 
The Honorable Epaminondas Pipps has written a very erudite 
or clever book, or he is an eminent authority on Birds, or Tuber- 
culosis, or Meteorology, or perchance Eugenics, therefore he is 
invited to speak at a dinner as a sort of drawing card. But 
Epaminondas cannot speak he knows it, his audience soon dis- 
cover it, and swear at him. He may be at fault for coming, but 
his hosts are more at fault for asking him, and the custom is just 
as absurd as it would be to invite a distinguished professor of 
Greek to play on an organ and fault him when he failed it is 
not his job. There is nothing more hideous than to be obliged 
to listen at a dinner to a speaker who does not know how to 
speak. Sometimes he produces a manuscript, which is quite as 
incongruous after dinner as would be a moving picture show at 
a funeral. Sometimes he imagines himself humorous, but this 
conceit is shared by none of his audience. We are thankful for 
brevity but usually have little on this score to be thankful for. 

I speak feelingly upon this subject because I have so often 
been the victim at dinners of two classes of speakers, those with 
thoughts who do not know how to express them, and those with- 
out thoughts who try to express mere trash. 

The story is well known of a tent evangelist in the South 
who in the prayer before the sermon exclaimed nearly a dozen 
times, "Oh, Lord, give me power." One of his audience a 
little under the influence of liquor cried out, "Young man, 
what you want ain't power, its ideas." So of the after-dinner 
speaker. 

The after-dinner speech is the supreme test of a man's wits. 
He must not only have them about him, but all over him. 

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Some few years ago a distinguished statesman was invited 
to Philadelphia to speak at a dinner upon Alexander Hamilton. 
My informant told me that at the end of forty-five minutes he 
had concluded the story of Hamilton's boyhood days, entirely 
oblivious of the fact that twenty minutes is the absolute limit 
of any after-dinner speech. 

Having played the part, although unwillingly, of the 
destructive critic, it is now in order that I become constructive, 
for the mere iconoclast is a public nuisance. You young men 
before me are destined, I hope, for some kind of an active life 
professional or otherwise, it makes no difference. Your influence 
will be immeasurably enhanced if you shall be able to express 
your thoughts publicly as occasion demands. 

It will be, as I said a few moments ago, thirty-seven years 
next spring since I bade good-bye to this Society and this Uni- 
versity. During that period, and especially during the last half 
of it, I have heard countless speeches, good, bad and indifferent, 
and have made a great many which I suppose may be described 
by the same adjectives. Let me then play the part of mentor 
and offer some practical suggestions to you. First of all and 
foremost of all, never speak without adequate preparation if 
you do, you will degenerate into a mere talker and the question 
will be the same as was raised nineteen hundred years ago at 
Athens, "What will this babbler say?" I have said preparation, 
what do I mean by it? A speech consists of three parts, 
thought, expression, delivery as to the last later. Unless you 
have some thought, do not attempt to speak, for you cannot 
express a non-existent thing. The average educated young man 
is not usually destitute of thoughts, and we may assume that the 
would-be speaker has the thoughts and wants to put them in 
shape for utterance. I would advise him first of all to read the 
King James version of the Bible, and to keep on reading it. Not 
as a religious duty at all, for with that I am not now concerned, 

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but in order to soak himself in good English. Ignorance of the 
English language is characteristic of present-day speakers. When 
you have gathered your thoughts together proceed to put them 
on paper in just such language as may occur to you. Having 
completed this, go over it carefully and strike out every word 
possible of Latin or Greek derivation. You are not to make a 
Latin or Greek but an English speech. 

You remember this story of Daniel Webster. He had been 
appointed Secretary of State by William Henry Harrison, and 
the latter sent him the draft of a very bombastic inaugural 
address for correction. Returning to his boarding house late 
one evening his landlady remarked that he looked exhausted and 
inquired if anything had happened. "You would think," replied 
Webster, "that something had happened if you knew what I 
have done. I have this afternoon killed seventeen Roman 
proconsuls." The slaughter of Harrison's proconsuls, will not be 
a circumstance to the carnage that will follow your elimination 
from your speech of Latin and Greek derivatives. 

The spirit and the lesson of the Parable of the Prodigal Son 
are not to be underestimated, but I venture to think that its 
great popularity is largely though unconsciously due to its fault- 
less English. There is scarcely a derivative word in it. The 
same is true of other parables, notably that of the Tares and the 
Wheat. No one should attempt public speaking who does 
not know these parables by heart. Having corrected your 
speech as to form, boil it down reduce it to its lowest common 
denominator you had better be faulted for brevity than 
discursiveness. And when you shall have done all this, 
memorize it. Yes, learn it by heart, and then throw away the 
manuscript. 

Of course this suggestion brings up the whole question of 
what is called extempore speaking, and the advice I give is 
limited to young men. There is no greater danger than that of 

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extempore speaking, for sooner or later, generally sooner, your 
thoughts as well as your language will become extempore, and 
that spells ruin. The habit you will form of correct and con- 
densed expression by writing and memorizing, will serve you in 
good stead against the time, sure to come in later life, when pres- 
sure of other duties will forbid such painstaking and elaborate 
preparation. 

For a short speech, and that is the only kind young men 
should make, the extempore and the manuscript are both abom- 
inations. I should urge every young man who desires to speak to 
go on the stump for a while. One can always get an assignment 
to a small town and there is no better training school. A single 
prepared speech will serve for a whole campaign and you learn 
a great deal by practice which, if hard on you, is still harder on 
your audiences. The great value of stump speaking is that it 
makes one quick witted. You are liable to constant interrup- 
tions and if one is to attain any success as a speaker he must 
be prepared for a good deal of give and take. 

"Think," said a stump speaker in an adjoining town, "of the 
iniquity of a tariff on tea and coffee/' "But," cried some one 
from the audience, "there hasn't been any for ten years." This 
is disconcerting to say the least. The speaker was a fool to make 
such a statement, but having made it, he must have some ready 
answer or his usefulness in that town is at an end. I leave each 
of you to determine how he should have dealt with that interrup- 
tion. 

Never let an audience rattle you. I recollect some years ago 
being interrupted by a drunken man at the Academy of Music. 
He annoyed me a little and the audience more. Amid cries of 
"put him out," I said, "Don't put him out, let me speak with 
him." He was up in the balcony. Turning to him and thereby 
focusing the eyes of the house on him, I said very quietly, "My 
friend, I came here invited to make a speech, and you came here 

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uninvited to ask questions. There isn't time for us both, but if 
you will let me speak without further interruption, I will gladly 
answer your questions in the Green Room after the meeting." 
The incident was closed and he subsided. But then you are 
liable to interruption from some one who is sober. He is not so 
easy to handle if he asks a sensible question answer it fairly and 
frankly if not, then follow Solomon's advice and "answer a fool 
according to his folly." But if you are going to maintain your 
equilibrium you must be prepared for the heckler. 

Never antagonize an audience. If it be in sympathy with 
you this advice is useless; if it be out of sympathy your duty is 
to win it. There are many ways of antagonizing an audience, 
I will indicate some of them. Nothing is more likely to cause 
trouble than making light, not only of religion, but of any partic- 
ular religion. The present is flippantly called an irreligious age. 
This is not true. Not only are men and women thinking and feel- 
ing deeply upon religious subjects, but those who are not, have no 
liking for slurs upon or criticisms of religion. Closely akin to 
this is a proper restraint in speaking of what I call, for want of 
a better name, the world's heroes. The capacity for fun is 
unlimited in America and it is well that it is so, but let your fun 
at the expense of heroes be in good taste. It is a curious fact 
that there is only one man in American history that no one has 
ever dared to poke fun at. Go over the whole list, and even 
George Washington with the hatchet and the cherry tree has 
not been immune from platform humor, but no one has ever 
dared to become humorous at the expense of Abraham Lincoln. 
Himself a man of boundless and not always refined humor, the 
victim during his life of more coarse abuse from the stump than 
any other American. Referred to constantly as an ape and a 
baboon. All this ceased in 1865, and any public speaker who 
dared to speak flippantly of Lincoln would be hissed from the 
stage. 

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The temptation to abuse and villification is peculiarly char- 
acteristic of the stump. Calling one a liar and a thief is easy 
and cheap, and creates antagonism. Better far to describe 
impersonally this kind of an individual, and leave to your audience 
the privilege of identifying him. Calling people names, like 
drink, is a habit that grows on one. A speaker who begins his 
career by calling names usually and speedily degenerates into a 
mere blackguard. 

I have hesitated whether I ought even to mention the fact, 
that in any speech delivered, no matter when, where, or under 
what circumstances, no man must ever say a word that he would 
not be willing to say to his family at his dinner table. 

Anything of this sort is to be deprecated, not only because 
it is vulgar but because it will shortly end the career of anyone 
who attempts it. There are vulgar men in the world and vulgar 
women too, but it is creditable to America that our people want 
no exhibition of vulgarity on the platform, the theater seems to 
provide them with enough. 

More depends upon the manner of a speech than its matter. 
This is to be regretted but it is true. Some people say nothing 
very well. When I was a boy elocution was taught in school and 
college; whether all the elocutionists are dead or not I do not 
know, but I sincerely hope that those who died did so without 
hope of resurrection. 

The bad gestures and modulations of voice that I was 
taught, it took me years to recover from. The rules that can be 
given as to delivery are few and simple. Be neither slouchy nor 
fussy. Do not come on a platform with shambling gait and on 
the other hand, do not strut like a peacock. You will get your 
audience in the first three minutes or you will never get them, 
and your manner will score heavily in their first estimate of you. 
Of course if your strong card be drollery, well and good. Start 
off with it, but don't mistake buffoonery for drollery, because 

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your audience won't. Naturalness is the key to delivery. The 
prepared gesture, the measured period, the studied enunciation, 
are soon detected and properly laughed at. If you want to be 
effective be natural. 

Of course you will have some bad natural habits to correct. 
Too many gestures reduce them many gestures are not appre- 
ciated. 

Your usual voice is your best voice, provided it is not too 
loud or what may be called snappy. I know a speaker to whom 
it would be a pleasure to listen, but for the fact that he always 
raises his voice to a high pitch at the very end of every sentence, 
and his speeches resemble the explosion of an automobile tire. 

In the last analysis, the conversational style is the most 
effective. Great rapidity of utterance is to be avoided because 
it is difficult for your audience to follow, but it is immeasurably 
better to be too rapid than too slow, for the latter produces 
sleep. Above all things, when you have finished sit down. 
When you have reached the climax don't risk an anti-climax for 
the sake of a few more minutes. "I wish he had spoken longer," 
is the highest praise you will receive for any speech you will 
ever make. Let it always remain an ungratified wish and suc- 
cess is surely yours. 

There is one book, perhaps more than one, in existence 
called Familiar Quotations the ready refuge of the indolent 
speaker. Quotations should be used sparingly and still more 
sparingly familiar quotations because they are generally so 
familiar as to be trite. For example, during the past ten years 
the repetition of the fact that the government of the people, by 
the people and for the people must not be allowed to perish 
from the earth has brought me close to the doors of a lunatic 
asylum. This really great conclusion of the Gettysburg classic 
has been used by every witless babbler till it has become jejune 
to the last degree. 

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The epigram is always appreciated and one can usually 
afford to be extravagant with it, but alliterations are to be care- 
fully handled and reserved for occasional use they are not 
particularly difficult to formulate but they may be loaded, as the 
late Rev. Dr. Burchard discovered. 

I must say something as to the use of humor and wit in 
speaking. The words are not exactly synonymous but the dis- 
tinction is so shadowy that I may safely disregard it. Wit is, of 
course, a natural gift, but if it be in the system at all it can be 
cultivated, and is a most, perhaps the most, valuable asset 
a speaker can possess. The American people have a keen sense 
of humor and may I digress long enough to say that one of the 
most interesting things to watch is the effect of wit upon an 
audience. An obvious witticism of course meets with an imme- 
diate response, but real wit a trifle subtle strikes about ten per 
cent of an audience at once, about eighty per cent in ten seconds, 
the remaining ten per cent and a German audience, never. Of 
course there is often recourse to the wit of others, I mean apt 
stories. These help along a speech wonderfully, subject to three 
provisoes. The story must be reasonably new. Let it not be 
said of your anecdote: 

In the days of King Rameses 
That joke died of paresis. 

A story is good to illustrate a point provided it fulfills its func- 
tion, but if it does not, don't tell it merely for the sake of the 
telling. It may raise a momentary laugh but it weakens the 
speech. Again, if you are going to tell a story do not waste 
much time on the preface, the point is the thing, and get there 
speedily. How often have I heard a really good story ruined by 
an elaborate statement of the place where, or the time when, or 
the person to whom the incident happened. 

Let me illustrate a friend was visiting an Irishman, who 

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had on his parlor mantel a brick with a wineglass on top in which 
was a flower. Curiosity being aroused, he inquired the cause of 
the presence of the brick. The Irishman pointing to his head 
said, "Do you see that scar? The brick is what made that scar." 
"Well, what is the flower in the wineglass?" "That is from the 
grave of the man who threw the brick." The story is good, 
but many a speaker would ruin it by reciting that it occurred in 
Boston and that the Irishman's name was Finnigan and the 
visitor's name Jones and the man who threw the brick Sullivan. 
In the wilderness of nomenclature the point would be lost. 

Akin to wit is ridicule. I do not affirm that ridicule is 
always or generally a sound, or for the matter of that, any 
argument at all, but I do not hesitate to say that it is the 
most effective arrow the speaker has in his quiver if he knows 
how to use it. Making your antagonist ridiculous generally 
finishes him, unless when his turn comes he can make you more 
ridiculous. 

Gentlemen, I have almost finished and I suppose some one 
will say, "Physician, heal thyself. You have preached brevity 
and failed to practice it." That is true, and for it I can do 
naught but apologize. My excuse is that of the letter writer who 
asked pardon for writing a long letter because he had not the 
time to write a short one. 

It may be that you yourselves have thought or been taught 
many of the things I have said, but nobody ever taught them to 
me when I was young. Perhaps again they are not worth the 
knowing but had I been taught them I should not have had 
to learn so much in the school of experience. 

This Society may I not call it my own Society interests 
me. You young men interest me; the great questions of today 
and of the future interest me, and I plead with you for the sake of 
the Philomathean, for your own sakes, and for the sake of the 
country, spare neither time nor talent to fit yourselves, not only 

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to think but to find a way to express your thoughts in such a 
manner as to command attention. 

It will not perhaps fall to your lot "the applause of listening 
Senates to command," but it can be yours if you will it so, to 
contribute something with your voices and tongues to the solu- 
tion of some of the varied problems with which we as American 
citizens are now and will tomorrow be confronted. 

Mr. Winston Churchill in his most recent and most talked 
of book omits the preface and adds an afterword. May I follow 
so distinguished an example. I appreciate more than I can tell 
you the compliment you have paid me in asking me to come here 
and deliver this address. It has been a pleasure to come and it 
will be a still greater pleasure if anything I may have said shall 
prove helpful to any of those who have so patiently listened to 
me. May I add one more thought. Back of all your speeches 
stands the necessity for sincerity and sanity. Unless you believe 
what you say you may deceive yourselves, but you will not long 
deceive other people; your acts must not belie your words. But 
mere sincerity is not enough. There is such a thing as the 
sincerity of a disordered mind, and it finds expression every hour 
of every day. The man who maintains that whatever is is 
wrong lacks a well-balanced mind, but his mind is not one 
whit more askew than he who maintains that whatever is is 
right. 

The poor fool who proposes by legislation to make every- 
body rich, happy and contented is just about as sane as the 
rich fool who is opposed to anything being attempted to better 
existing conditions. With the former the personal equation 
counts for nothing, with the latter, for everything. Both are 
wrong. If you cultivate sane, well-balanced orderly minds, 
like the householder in the Scripture you will bring forth 
from your treasure things new and old, and both will be worth 
listening to. 

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Today closes the first century of our life as a society, 
tomorrow begins the second. Of whatever country or clime, of 
whatever land or language, of whatever politics or religion, we 
may all unite in the prayer for the Philomathean: 

"The Lord God be with us as he was with our Fathers. 
May he never leave us nor forsake us." 



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THE ROSETTA STONE REPORT 



THE ROSETTA STONE REPORT* 

BY 
HENRY MORTON, PH.D. 

President of Stevens' Institute of Technology 

Although the present writer had a good deal to do with 
the so-called Rosetta Stone Report, he is free to admit that it 
owed its inception and publication to the energy and persistence 
of his collaborator, the Rev. Charles R. Hale, now Dean of 
Davenport Cathedral, Iowa. 

About the close of the college year of 1 855-56 Mr. Thomas 
K. Conrad, then a member of the graduating class, and now the 
Rev. Dr. Conrad, Rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia, presented 
to the Philomathean Society a plaster cast of the famous Rosetta 
Stone, at the same time reading an essay on "Hieroglyphic 
Research." 

About this time Mr. Charles R. Hale joined the class of 1858, 
then in its sophomore year, and also became a member of the 
Philomathean Society. 

His attention and interest were excited by this model of the 
Rosetta Stone, and asking many questions about it which no 
one was able to answer, he caused others to feel that the subject 
ought to be investigated, and accordingly a committee was 
appointed, with Mr. Hale for chairman, and instructed to investi- 
gate and report upon the Rosetta Stone. The other members of 
this committee were S. Huntington Jones and the present writer. 
The latter had already taken some interest in the subject of 
hieroglyphics, and when, after a preliminary report by Mr. Hale 
the subject grew in importance in the estimation of the committee, 

* Reprinted from the "Philomathean Record" of 1892 

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he offered to do some serious work on the interpretation of the 
hieroglyphic text, and also to illustrate and illuminate the manu- 
script of the completed report. 

The interest grew as the work proceeded, and,, without 
any definitely prearranged plan as to division of labor, it arranged 
itself finally, as follows: Mr. Hale took in hand the Greek and 
Demotic texts of the trilingual inscription and gave valuable 
assistance in translating the hieroglyphic text; Mr. Jones con- 
tributed an historic essay on the "Egyptian king, Ptolemy 
Epiphanes," in whose honor the inscriptions were originally made, 
and the present writer took charge of the hieroglyphic text, and 
of the pictorial decoration of the work. 

The work progressed slowly as it involved much study of 
books not readily accessible, and both the present writer and Mr. 
Hale spent many days of more than one vacation in the Astor 
Library in New York, as well as in the Philadelphia Library, 
where only certain extensive works on "Egyptology," and on 
"Hieroglyphics" were to be seen. Among these one of the most 
important was that of "Lepsius," which contained a complete 
drawing of an inscription on a temple wall at Philae, which 
proved to be another copy of the inscription covering the Rosetta 
Stone. This Philae inscription was, in great part, effaced, but 
a careful collation of what remained of it (made for the first 
time by this committee) enabled them to throw a new light on 
many otherwise doubtful passages of the Rosetta Stone text. 

For the various reasons indicated, it was not until the sum- 
mer of 1857 that the manuscript report of the Rosetta Stone 
Committee was finished, bound, and deposited in the library of 
the Philomathean Society. 

Almost immediately, however, it mysteriously disappeared, 
and for several months it was supposed to be lost. When, at 
last it was found and replaced in the library, the circumstances 
of its temporary loss impressed some members of the desirability 

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of reproducing, by some mode of printing, a volume representing 
so much labor. 

The reproduction of the Hieroglyphic and Demotic texts, 
and of the colored illustrations and illuminations, could only 
be accomplished by chromo-lithography, and the expense of 
preparing the necessary and numerous drawings on stone, if a 
professional artist were employed, was prohibitory under the 
existing conditions. The present writer, at that time, knew 
absolutely nothing about drawing on stone, but with the happy 
temerity of youth, and inexperience, he felt that nothing possible 
to man ought to trouble a graduate of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and of the Philomathean Society, and he, therefore, under- 
took, quite as a matter of course, to make all the required drawings 
on the stone. 

In this task he spent the entire summer and autumn of 1 858, 
and during the same time Mr. Hale worked with unwearied 
diligence in perfecting and enlarging the various parts of the 
work which came under his hands. Shortly before Christmas, 
1 858, the first edition of this report made its appearance, and was 
so highly appreciated by the public that in a few days the entire 
edition was exhausted, and many times the original price of 
copies was offered by those anxious to secure them. 

Under these conditions the Philomathean Society, who had 
found this committee so ready to execute its directions, at its 
meeting held January 21, 1859, expressed the desire that this 
committee should prepare a second edition of their report. This 
request involved more than might at first sight appear. 

To produce each one of the colored designs of the report, 
an average of four lithographic stones was required, and these, 
with the non-illuminated pages of Hieroglyphic and Demotic, made 
a total of several hundred stones. No lithographic establishment 
had such a stock of the same size, or could afford to keep them 
for our use; therefore, when the first part of the report had been 

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struck off, the stones were ground down to a new surface, and 
used for a new set of pages. Thus, when the Society desired its 
committee to print a new edition, only the stones used in the 
preparation of the last twenty pages or so retained any designs, 
and thus the printing of a new edition involved the production 
on stone of more than a hundred drawings. 

Encouraged and inspired by the already realized success, 
the present writer willingly undertook this work, and, profiting 
by experience, made entirely new designs for all the pages it was 
necessary to reproduce. Thus the second edition was in its artistic 
portion largely a new work. 

This second edition came out in the spring of J859, and, 
like its predecessor, was not very long in being exhausted; so 
that for over twenty years the Rosetta Stone Report has been 
numbered among the "scarce" publications, only to be obtained 
from antiquarian book dealers, and at the sales of libraries. 

Among the many kind letters which members of the com- 
mittee received from various sources, none were more gratifying 
than one written by Baron von Humboldt, March 12, 1859, in 
which he says, after acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the 
report: "The scientific analysis of the celebrated inscription 
of Rosetta, which, despite the confusion of the hieroglyphic 
style, remains an historic monument of great importance, has 
appeared to me especially worthy of praise, since it offers the 
first essay at independent investigation offered by the litterateur 
of the New Continent. It is for this national reason that I espe- 
cially greet this independent work." Speaking further of "the so 
conscientious work of the learned committee of the Philomathean 
Society," he goes on to say: "The picturesque ornaments added 
by Mr. Henry Morton add to the interest inspired by a work 
well worthy to be widely spread in your learned and free country. 
I pray Mr. Charles R. Hale to receive with kindness the homage 
of my sentiments of high and affectionate consideration." 

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In view of the rarity of the Rosetta Stone Report, it may 
be well to say here that the Rosetta Stone is a slab of granite 
bearing three inscriptions: one in Hieroglyphics, or the language 
of the priests; one in Demotic, or the language of the people, 
used in common life and for commercial transactions in ancient 
Egypt; and one in Greek. This slab was found near the town of 
Rosetta, on one of the mouths of the Nile, hence its name. In 
substance, it is a set of resolutions or vote of thanks passed by 
the priests, assembled on some occasion at Memphis about 200 
B.C., in honor of Ptolemy Epiphanes. It recites the virtues of 
this king, some of the events of his reign, and decrees divine 
honors to him and his parents. Finally it provides for its own 
publication, as is usual nowadays, by ordering that copies shall be 
set up in all the temples of Egypt. The slab or tablet is about 
3 feet high, 2 feet 5 inches wide, and from 6 to 12 inches thick, 
being very irregular at the back. On its face are engraved 14 
lines of Hieroglyphic text, 32 lines of Demotic text, and 52 lines 
of Greek text, each expressing in its own way the same subject 
matter. The original stone is preserved in the British Museum. 



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PUBLICATIONS 

OF 

THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 

Philo was founded long before the days of undergraduate 
publications at Pennsylvania. In 1813 there was no daily 
Pennsylvania!*, nor were there such monthly magazines as the 
Red and Blue and the Punch Bowl. Instead, the exercise of the 
journalistic talent of the undergraduates was restricted to such 
as were fortunate enough to be members of Philo. These found 
plenty of opportunity in the unpublished magazines, Papers in 
the Box and Reviews, written out and preserved in manuscript 
form. In the earlier days of the Society, originality was not as 
highly valued as it is today; the literary exercises consisted more 
of readings and extracts from speeches of famous orators than of 
original declamations such as today are the principal part of the 
literary program. Consequently it would seem as though the 
members in the early days were not particularly proud of their 
accomplishments or else that they were more modest than we are 
today. A careful examination of the minutes, however, has led 
the editors to think that Philomatheans have been very much 
the same during these hundred years and that perhaps it was fear 
of the reception of their works, rather than any modesty, that 
led the early members to make most of their original compositions 
anonymous. 

However this may be, the fact remains that many literary 
gems that have been preserved for us are without the names of 
their authors. Such masterpieces as the Ripto Sl^ipto Peedle 
Dum, edited by Messrs. Blind Bat, Smike-yer-Pope, Bag-o- 
Grease, Blow-Hard, etc. Ho Neos Diabolos, edited by Scullion 
Pint-Pot and Solly Swallow-Bug, and The Philomathean Jr. and 
Weekly Sockdolager are still preserved in the Philomathean 

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Library. The Sockdolager seems to have had but one number 
which contains this choice bit: 

A GOOD SPECIMEN OF LETTER WRITING 

Deer Sir: Dont bee larmed at noin that yure sun is ded. hee 
left hom abowt 10 ocloc and wee didint no whayer heed gawn. 
abowt 2 we herd a man noccin at the dore and goin to open it 
hee sed that yure sun had bin drounded. it wasnt yure sun tho 
bekaws hee jus kame in. i gess it woz Mr hennery tomases sun. 
sorry to av larmed yu gud bi 

jon Peeters. 

During the years of 1848-51 J. Cheston Morris and John 
Helmuth, both of '51, edited a magazine which they called the 
Mummy Monster. It contained clever bits of satire on the 
members and on the professors as well. In the winter of 1913 
Dr. Morris came up to one of the Society's meetings and pre- 
sented the library with an almost complete set of Mummy Monsters. 

The Review is the oldest Philo tradition and it is still pre- 
served; it was originally a magazine edited and read before each 
meeting by the "Review Committee/' Copies of the Review 
as early as 1 828 are to be found in the Philo Library, and some of 
these contain excellent bits of poetry and sketches, such as appear 
in the monthly magazines of our modern colleges. As time went 
on the Review changed form due to an increase of literary endeavor 
which found expression in various other Philo magazines. The 
Review gradually grew to be a humorous satire in poetry of the 
events of each meeting, and was read as a part of the Literary 
Exercises every Friday night for the entertainment of the Society. 
It was not unusual for the reviewer to exercise the utmost license. 
A great many of these later Reviews have been kept and have been 
a valuable supplement to the "minutes." Today it is customary 
for a particulary good review to be incorporated in the minutes 
of the meeting. 

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The first regular college publication that the editors have 
been able to discover is the University Magazine published in 
1843. It must not be confused with another magazine with the 
same title which ran in the seventies and eighties. The first 
University Magazine apparently existed for only one year and was 
purely literary, in fact so purely literary, that the only indica- 
tion that the publication was at all connected with the University 
was on the title page: The University Magazine Edited by a com- 
mittee of the Philomathean and Zelosophic Societies of the University 
of Pennsylvania. One volume, that of the year 1843, survives 
in the Philomathean Library, and as it contains not a single item 
relating to the student body it has no special interest for us. 

In the fall of 1 875 there appeared the first college publication 
at Pennsylvania which had for its sole object student news. 
The University Magazine published monthly by the Philomathean 
Society of the University of Pennsylvania came out in November 
of 1875 and seemed to disregard absolutely the existence of the 
previous magazine of the same name, and marked its first num- 
ber "Vol. 1. No. 1." A committee of Philomatheans had the 
magazine in charge, and it was devoted solely to students' inter- 
ests. The first editorial mentioned the long-felt need for some 
organ in which the views and opinions of undergraduates could 
be expressed, and it frankly asserted that it was not "the Maga- 
zine's intention to give any deep, solemn, political, financial or 
mercantile information," but rather to contain news relative to 
college life. Throughout its existence, from 1875 to 1885, the 
Magazine gave a faithful record of events at the University. 
The bound volumes which are complete in the Philomathean 
Library have been of no little assistance to the editors in piecing 
out the minutes of the Society. Of course the editors of the 
Magazine were entirely Philomatheans and the editorial page 
announced the fact that the periodical owed its existence to the 
Society. But as the University "grew up" the Magazine could 

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not fairly be said to be representative, as Philo has seldom had 
more than fifty members (at present she is limited to that) while 
there were nearly a thousand students at the University. So 
Philo consented to give up the publication of the Magazine upon 
condition that another publication should at once be started 
by the undergraduate body. The public spirited attitude of 
Philo and her generosity in thus giving up one of her chief functions 
was commended in the first number of the Pennsykanian. 

Of other publications Philo has produced quite a number. 
Many of the speeches and biennial orations which have from time 
to time been delivered before the Society have been published and 
are preserved in the Philomathean Library; a list of these is 
appended to this article, together with as complete a list of the 
formal orations which have been delivered before the Society 
as it has been possible to get together. Bound up with some of 
these old orations are copies of The University, a magazine edited 
by Henry Budd and Charles Ziegler in 1869. It was partly 
devoted to the usual articles of fiction and partly to the under- 
graduate news and editorials on college subjects. Bound up like- 
wise with these are old commencement programs and an invitation 
to the University Commencement of 1816. 

Accounts of the fiftieth and seventy-fifth anniversary cele- 
brations were published and are carefully preserved. An address 
by Dr. Cruse, the first Moderator, is printed in the account of the 
Semi-Centennial and has been reprinted in the present volume. 

The most celebrated of Philo's publications is that of the 
report of the committee appointed to translate the Rosetta 
Stone. This is of such significance that it is discussed at greater 
length elsewhere in this volume. 

In 1896 another very creditable piece of translation was 
done by a committee composed of Edmund J. Burk, '95; Jasper 
Y. Brinton, '98; John C. Hinckley, '96; and Arthur E. Weil, '96, 
who were appointed to translate the "De Mysteriis" of Andocides. 

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The idea of publishing such a translation was due entirely to 
the committee in charge and their work was highly commended 
by Professor Lamberton, the head of the Department of Greek, 
who gave the gentlemen full credit for their ideas and the industry 
they displayed. This work was published by Philo, and two 
copies are on the shelves of the Philomathean Library. 

SOME NOTABLE ORATIONS DELIVERED BEFORE THE 
PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 

1825. Oration delivered by Professor William Hippolyte Keating, '16. 

1826. July 26. Annual Oration delivered by George Bacon Wood, M.D., 
'15: "A History of the University of Pennsylvania." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 

1827. July 25. Annual Discourse pronounced by Joseph Ingersoll: "The 
Value of a Study of the Classics." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 
1832. June 30. Annual Oration delivered by James C. Biddle: "The Real 

Patriot." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 
1836. September 15. Annual Oration delivered by Thomas M. Pettitt, 

'15: "Education." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 
1838. November 1. Oration delivered by Prof. William Bradford Reed, 

LL.D., '22: "The American Revolution." 

(Published and a copy preserved at Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) 
1840. November 30. Annual Oration delivered by George W. Bethune, 

D.D.: "Work." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 
1845. The Biennial Oration delivered by Henry D. Gilpin, '19: "En- 
thusiasm." 
(Published and a copy preserved at Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) 

1852. The Biennial Oration delivered by Kingston Goddard, '33. 

1853. December 2. Oration delivered by Clement Biddle, '29. 

1855. February 2. Oration delivered by John Packard, '50. 

1856. January. Oration delivered by Brinton Coxe, '52. 

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1859. March 15. The Biennial Oration delivered by Hon. Frederick Car- 
roll Brewster, '41 : "The Youth of America." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 

1860. February 21. Oration delivered by Henry Morton, '57: "The Al- 
chemists of Old." 

1 862. February 21 . The Biennial Oration delivered by James Robbins, '50. 

1863. March 13. Oration delivered by Kingston Goddard, '33. 

1864. December 8. The Biennial Oration delivered by Morton P. Henry, 
'43. 

1 870. December 20. The Biennial Oration delivered by Charles P. Krauth, 

D.D.: "The Young Man." 
1872. December 17. The Biennial Oration delivered by George Shars- 

wood, LL.D.: "The Collegiate Department of the University of 

Pennsylvania." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 
1874. December 22. The Biennial Oration delivered by William Mc- 

Michael, '59: "The Progress of Modern Thought." 

(Published and a copy preserved at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) 
1878. December 20. The Biennial Oration delivered by Robert Ellis 

Thompson: "The Scholar in Politics." 
1880. December 10. The Biennial Oration delivered by George Tucker 

Bispham: "Changes in American Responsibility." 

1 882. December 1 9. The Biennial Oration delivered by Francis A. Lewis, 77. 
1884. December 19. The Biennial Oration delivered by Robert Adams, 

Jr., '69: "Must the Classics Go?" 
(Vid. University Magazine, December 20, 1884, in Philomathean Library.) 

1887. February 24. The Biennial Oration delivered by Lincoln L. Eyre, 
Esq.: "The Overtopping Issue." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 

1888. December 6. The Biennial Oration delivered by Hampton L. Car- 
son, 71 : "American Citizenship." 

(Published in the 1892 "Record" of Philo, a copy of which is preserved in 

the Philomathean Library.) 
1898. December 17. An Address by Hon. Frederick Carroll Brewster, 

'41: "Lamoignon de Malesherbes." 

(Published and a copy preserved in the Philomathean Library.) 

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THE THREE MODERATORS OF '90 




HUGH WALKER OGDEN, WILLIAM HERBERT BURK, JOSIAH HARMAR PENNIMAN 



THE MODERATORS OF 1890 

The picture on the opposite page is an illustration of how 
Philo prepares for the three learned professions of Law, Ministry 
and Teaching. These gentlemen are the three Moderators of 
Philo from the Class of 1890. On the left is Hugh W. Ogden, 
now one of the most prominent lawyers in Boston; in the center 
is W. Herbert Burk, who has since become rector of the famous 
Valley Forge Memorial Chapel near Philadelphia; on the right 
is Josiah Harmar Penniman, who, after becoming Professor of 
English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, was made 
Dean of the College and finally Vice-Provost of the University. 



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THE PHILOMATHEAN 
COMMENCEMENTS 



INTRODUCTORY 

The Philomathean Commencement Exercises are held annu- 
ally at the last regular meeting before the summer vacation. The 
following record of the men who took part in the Commencements 
shows how the custom developed and how the spirit of the old 
University survives in the Latin Salutatory. 

THE PHILOMATHEAN COMMENCEMENTS 

1822. June 19. Presiding Moderator Robert J. Thomson, '22 

Valedictory Thomas Wharton, '22 

1843. July 7. Presiding Moderator Samuel M. Shute, '44 

Oration by member of Senior Class . . . John H. Atwood 
Latin Oration Elias E. Wilson, '45 

1855. July 2. Presiding Moderator William H. Badger, '56 

( Thomas K. Conrad 
Essays < Lenox Hodge 

[Samuel Dickson 
Valedictory Joseph D. Newlin 

1856. May 29. Presiding Moderator Charles B. Penrose, '58 

"Revelation and Discovery" William H. Hodge 

"Demetrius Poliorcites" John Ashhurst, Jr. 

Valedictory Henry Morton 

1858. June 4. Presiding Moderator Edward B. Hodge, '59 

Essay Charles R. Hale 

"Review of Novel Reading" George Tucker Bispham 

"The Alhambra" William West Frazier 

"The Old Guard of Napoleon" C. W. Duane 

1859. June 3. Presiding Moderator David B. Willson, '60 

Latin Salutatory Charles T. McMullin 

"Qualifications of a Literary Work". .Edward P. Capp 

"How Do We Live?" Charles E. Buckwalter 

Valedictory Edward B. Hodge 

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1860. June 22. Presiding Moderator Chester D. Hartranft, '60 

f David B.Willson 

Orations \ L JaC b eal 

] George M. Bredin 

[ William W. White 

1865. June 16. Presiding Moderator I. Minis Hays, 76 

Latin Salutatory Wm. W. Montgomery 

Poem Wm. W. Newton 

Valedictory Richard N. Thomas 

1866. June 15. Presiding Moderator Edward F. Pugh, '67 

Latin Salutatory Harry I. Meigs 

Valedictory I. Minis Hays 

1867. May 31. Presiding Moderator Ewing Jordan, '68 

Greek Salutatory Alonzo P. Douglass 

Valedictory Herman C. Duncan 

1868. June 3. Presiding Moderator Robert Adams, '69 

Latin Salutatory James P. Sims 

Valedictory Edward F. Hoffman 

Poem Leighton Hoskins 

1869. May 21. Presiding Moderator H. Galbraith Ward, 70 

Oration George H. Stuart, Jr. 

Valedictory John G. Bawn 

1870. June 3. Presiding Moderator Herbert Welsh, 71 

Latin Salutatory Alexander J. Miller 

Valedictory George M. Christian 

1871. May 26. Presiding Moderator Franklin L. Sheppard, 72 

Latin Salutatory Benj. H. Yarnall 

Valedictory Wm. G. Freedley 

1872. May 24. Presiding Moderator Charles A. Young, 73 

Latin Salutatory Richard C. Dale 

Valedictory Charles P. Keith 

1874. May 22. Presiding Moderator Charles W. Freedley, 75 

Latin Salutatory Joseph DeF. Junkin 

Valedictory Charles A. Ashburner 

1875. May 28. Presiding Moderator William C. Bullitt, 76 

Latin Salutatory Wm. R. Philler 

Oration John W. Townsend 

Senior Oration Coleman Sellers, 73 

Valedictory William W. Porter 

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1876. June 16. Presiding Moderator G. Stanley Philler, 77 

Latin Salutatory Robert P. Robins 

Oration Frank W. Iredell 

Senior Oration Robert Adams, Jr., '69 

Valedictory William L. Saunders 

1877. June 1. Presiding Moderator Edward G. McCollin, 78 

Latin Salutatory Francis A. Lewis, Jr. 

Oration Thomas Robins, 3d 

Senior Oration Lawrence Lewis, Jr., 76 

Valedictory John Neill, Jr. 

1878. May 24. Presiding Moderator John M. Gest, 79 

Latin Salutatory Edward G. McCollin 

Oration Wm. P. Breed 

Valedictory Thomas B. Prichett 

1879. June 6. Presiding Moderator Wm. P. Gest, '80 

Latin Salutatory John M. Gest 

Oration Geo. S. Fullerton 

Senior Oration Effingham B. Morris, 75 

Valedictory Geo. W. B. Roberts 

1880. June 11. Presiding Moderator James H. Robins, '81 

Latin Salutatory Theodore E. Schmauk 

Oration Henry H. Bonnell 

1881. June 10. Presiding Moderator Thompson S. Westcott, '82 

Latin Salutatory Felix E. Schelling 

Senior Oration John M. Gest, 79 

Valedictory J. Campbell Lancaster 

1882. June 9. Presiding Moderator John W. Savage, '83 

Latin Salutatory Gustavus Remak 

Oration Edwin F. Lott 

Senior Oration J. Douglas Brown, 79 

Valedictory J. Campbell Lancaster 

1883. June 8. Presiding Moderator John S. Adams, '84 

Latin Salutatory John R. Moses 

Oration Charles 0. Beaseley 

Senior Oration J. Campbell Lancaster, '82 

Valedictory Charles W. Burr 

1884. June 6. Presiding Moderator James C. Jones, '85 

Latin Salutatory John S. Adams 

Oration Frank Lambader 

85 



1884. Senior Oration. Charles W. Burr 

Valedictory Lewis L. Smith 

1 885. June 1 2. Presiding Moderator Crawford Hening, '87 

Latin Salutatory Howard L. Cresswell 

Oration John S. Fernie 

Senior Oraticn John S. Adams, '84 

Valedictory James C. Jones 

1 886. In this year no Commencement was held. 

1887. In this year no Commencement was held. 

1888. June 4. Presiding Moderator J. Clayton Mitchell, '89 

Latin Salutatory Horace C. Richards 

Valedictory Dickinson S. Miller* 

1889. Presiding Moderator Hugh W. Ogden, '90 

Latin Salutatory Charles Peabody 

Senior Oration Lightner Witmer, '87 

Valedictory C. N. C. Brown 

1890. June 2. Presiding Moderator Samuel Colladay, '91 

Latin Salutatory Robert R. Truitt 

Valedictory W. Herbert Burk 

1891. Presiding Moderator U. S. Schaul, '92 

Latin Salutatory Erskine H. Dickson 

Senior Oration Manzo Kushida, '90 

Valedictory James DeW. Perry 

1892. June 14. Presiding Moderator Robert N. Willson, '92 

Latin Salutatory .U. S. Schaul 

Senior Oration ,. Charles W. Freedley, '75 

Valedictory Clifton Maloney 

1 893. Presiding Moderator George Codman, '94 

Latin Salutatory Francis H. Lee 

Valedictory Franklin S. Edmonds 

1894. June 5. Presiding Moderator John D. McMullin, '95 

Latin Salutatory : George J. Fox 

Senior Oration George W. Pepper, '87 

Valedictory George D. Codman 

1895. June 11. Presiding Moderator Arthur E. Weil, '96 

Latin Salutatory .....:.. John D. McMullin 

Valedictory :,........... Spencer C. Dickson 

*0n account of illness of Mr. Miller, the valedictory was delivered by Mr. Lightner 
Witmer. 

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1896. Presiding Moderator Charles L. McKeehan, '97 

Latin Salutatory Astley P. C. Ashhurst 

Senior Oration Effingham B. Morris, 75 

Valedictory Walter C. Lippincott 

1897. Presiding Moderator Charles S. Langstroth, '98 

Latin Salutatory Charles H. Montgomery 

Valedictory Laurence H. Marks 

1898. Presiding Moderator Milton D. Loeb, '99 

Latin Salutatory Jasper Y. Brinton 

Senior Oration F. Carroll Brewster, '41 

Valedictory James H. Langstroth 

1900. Presiding Moderator Henry J. Gibbon, '01 

Latin Salutatory Alfred B. Rice 

Senior Oration Charles Penrose Keith, 73 

Valedictory Allison Gaw 

1901. June 7. Presiding Moderator Calvin 0. Althouse, '02 

Latin Salutatory Thomas F. Cadwalader 

Senior Oration Herbert Welsh, 71 

Valedictory Robert A. Beggs, Jr. 

1902. June 13. Presiding Moderator Harold S. Rambo, '03 

Latin Salutatory Herman G. Cuthbert 

Oration Martin G. Brumbaugh 

Valedictory Calvin 0. Althouse 

1903. June 12. Presiding Moderator George A. Walton, '04 

Latin Salutatory Milton B. Stallman 

Oration Rev. Richard H. Nelson 

Valedictory Joseph F. Lewis 

1904. June. Presiding Moderator Stanley S. Swartley, '05 

Latin Salutatory Walter C. Pugh 

Valedictory Wesley L. Hemphill 

1905. Presiding Moderator Francis C. Stifler, '06 

Latin Salutatory Winfield W. Crawford 

Senior Oration Prof. Cornelius Weygandt, '91 

Valedictory Stanley S. Swartley 

1906. Presiding Moderator Augustus W. Shick, '07 

Latin Salutatory .Eugene McCartney 

Senior Oration Henry Budd, '68 

Valedictory , William P. Harbeson 



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1907. Presiding Moderator Frank A. Paul, '08 

Latin Salutatory Oliphant Gibbons 

Senior Oration Clinton Rogers Woodruff, '89 

Valedictory Augustus W. Shick 

1908. Presiding Moderator Clement E. Foust, '09 

Latin Salutatory Carl G. Franzen 

Senior Oration Prof. Cornelius Weygandt, '90 

Valedictory A. Walter Smith 

1909. June 11. Presiding Moderator Charles A. Drefs, '10 

Latin Salutatory Charles J. Cole, Jr. 

Oration Prof. William A. Lamberton, Litt.D. 

Valedictory Clement E. Foust 

1910. June 10. Presiding Moderator Albert R. Bechtel, '12 

Latin Salutatory ^ Arthur B. Gilfillin 

Oration Dr. Edgar F. Smith 

fLay 

Quartet-''CucuSong".. . }&* 

] Ritter 

[ Hoover 
(The oldest song in the English language of which both music and words 

are preserved.) 
Valedictory Charles A. Drefs 

191 1. May 27. Presiding Moderator Samuel L. Shanaman, '12 

Latin Salutatory Ernest W. Cheyney 

Valedictory W. Lewis Abbott 

1912. June 7. Presiding Moderator C. Brewster Rhoads, '13 

Latin Salutatory Henry D. Learned 

Senior Oration Prof. Edgar A. Singer, '92 

Valedictory Walter H. R. Trumbauer 

1913. June 3. Presiding Moderator Randolph G. Adams, '14 

Latin Salutatory George W. Rowley 

Senior Oration Prof. Felix E. Schelling, '81 

Valedictory Morrison C. Boyd 



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PHILOMATHEAN DEBATES 



PHILOMATHEAN INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATES 

We cannot imagine what Philo would be without her debat- 
ing. If there is anything she has made a point of doing and 
succeeded in doing besides turning out notable men, it has been 
to turn out notable debaters. Her foremost activity has been 
word-fights. What noise and smoke of frightful battle have 
ever been more fierce than her debates with Zelo? It seems 
that the chief good Zelo has done has been to supply us with hot 
contests. It seems that those unfortunate members who were 
with us before these contests started have missed their grandest 
opportunities to saw the air and rouse the dormant echoes to 
surprised applause. 

But not only with her neighbor does Philo like to argue: 
she had enlarged her field till it has extended from North Carolina 
in the South to New York in the North. One of the most famous 
of our debates is the one we hold with our worthy contemporaries 
in Columbia University The Philolexian Society. Yet even 
an organization so venerable has bowed under our weighty 
words in four times out of five. 

The men on the Philo teams have had a good time of it, 
but they also have had hard work of it; they have added much 
of glory to our annals. They have beaten Zelo three more times 
than Zelo has beaten them; and by that, if by nothing else, they 
have earned the right to have their mighty accomplishments and 
their manful attempts recorded. 



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RECORD OF THE DEBATES BETWEEN THE PHILOMATHEAN 

SOCIETY AND THE ZELOSOPHIC SOCIETY OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

Total: Won by Philo, 10; Won by Zelo, 7; Tie 1. 

First Debate, March 19, 1894. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Professor F. A. Jackson. 

Resolved, "That municipal suffrage should be restricted to citizens pay- 
ing taxes on property." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
G. W. Riley, '95. J. D. McMuIIin, '95. 

- Nakajunia. C. M. Jacobs, '95. 

B. D. Parker, '95. H. G. Swayne, '95. 

Judges: Mr. Talcott Williams, Mr. Charles DeGarmo and Mr. Charles 
Richardson. 

Decision awarded to Zelosophic Society. 



Second Debate, May 17, 1895. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. George Stuart Fullerton. 

Resolved, "That the plan of Initiative and Referendum should be adopted 
in the United States." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
Laurence Marks, '97. George Grevemeyer. 

Arthur Weil, '96. Walter Branson. 

Wilbur Morse, '97. Benjamin Davis. 

Judges: Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten, Professor J. Russell Hayes and 
Mr. Albert A. Bird. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 

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Third Debate, April 24, 1896. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Professor Roland Post Falkner. 

Resolved, "That the recent actions of the administration of the United 
States in regard to the present Venezuela boundary controversy are justifi- 
able." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
Charles Langstroth, '98. H. G. Ives, '99. 

Burton S. Easton, '98. 0. V. Willson, '99. 

John D. Mahoney, '97. William Chipman, '96. 

Francis S. McGrath, '98, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Russell Duane, Mr. Walter George Smith and Mr. Edward 
T. Devine. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fourth Debate, May 3, 1897. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Professor William E. Lamberton. 

Resolved, "That the United States should recognize the belligerency 
of the Cuban insurgents." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
Myer Solis-Cohen, '97. Stanley Folz, '00. 

William H. Parry, '99. Francis McGrath, '98. 

H. G. Ives, '99. Burton S. Easton, '98. 

W. Fisher, Alt. J. H. Langstroth, '98, Alt. 

Judges: Hon. William B. Hanna, Dr. James McAlister and Mr. Ellis 
Paxon Oberholtzer. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fifth Debate, April 15, 1898. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Professor Felix E. Schelling. 

Resolved, "That national party lines should be disregarded in the choice 
of Councils and administrative Officials in American Municipalities." 

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Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
James W. Riddle, '00. J. R. Withrow, '99. 

Henry J. Gibbons, '01 . W. B. Saul, '00. 

Burton S. Easton, '98. J. H. Nelson, '99. 

W. P. O'Neill, '01, Alt. 

Judges: Rev. Henry McCook, Rev. Elwood Worcester, Col. Alexander 
McClure. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Sixth Debate, May 6, 1899. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. Josiah Harmar Penniman. 

Resolved, "That a formal Alliance between Great Britain and the United 
States for the protection and advancement of their common interests is 
inexpedient." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 

H. B. Cohen, '02. Ralph N. Kellam, '00. 

A. D. Reese, '01 . Harold H. Tryon, '00. 

W. H. Parry, '99. James W. Riddle, '00. 

C.S. Wood, '01, Alt. 

Judges: Rev. K. B. Tupper, Hon. James Gay Gordon and Hon. John 
R. Read. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Seventh Debate, April 28, 1900. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. George Stuart Fullerton. 

Resolved, "That the actions of Great Britain toward the South African 
Republic are justifiable." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 

Morris Wolf, '03. Henry J. Gibbons, '01 . 

G. Lewis Taylor, '00. Calvin 0. Althouse, '02. 

Arthur D. Rees, '00. Robert A. Beggs, '01 . 

W. Allen, '03, Alt. 

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Judges: Hon. James Gay Gordon, Professor Reynolds Brown and 
Hon. H. S. Prentiss Nicholls. 

Decision awarded to Zelosophic Society. 



Eighth Debate, May 17, 1901. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. Josiah Harmar Penniman. 

Resolved, "That compulsory voting in our large cities is desirable." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
Howard S. Rambo, '04. S. J. Osbourne, '02. 

George A. Walton, '04. H. C. Diller, '03. 

Thomas F. Cadwalader, '01. S. G. Friedmann, '03. 

Thomas E. Robbins, '04, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Henry R. Seager and Rev. James R. Davis. 
Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Ninth Debate, May 17, 1902. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. Charles L. McKeehan. 

Resolved, "That reform in municipal government can be more effectively 
secured through a 'Reform Party' than through either of the regular parties." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
Fred G. Munson, '03. W. H. G. MacKay, '04. 

Graham Woodward, '02. Walter C. Pugh, '04. 

H. C. Diller, '03. J. B. Walton, '04. 

S. J. Osbourne, '02, Alt. Howard Rambo, '04, Alt. 

Judges: Professor Edward P. Cheyney, Professor Leo Rowe and Pro- 
fessor H. V. Ames. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Tenth Debate, February 13, 1903. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. Henry C. Diller. 



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Resolved, "That in the settlement of disputes concerning wages and 
hours of labor, employers are justified in refusing to make agreements with 
Labor Unions of which a majority of their employees are members." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 

Winton J. White, '04. Charles E. Asnis, '04. 

Wesley L. Hemphill, '04. J. I. Weinstein, '04. 

Thomas D. Cope, '03. Herbert E. Ives, '05. 

J. B. Walton, '04, Alt. Fred G. Munson, '03, Alt. 

Judges: Professor Henry Gibbons, Mr. Bruce Metzgar and Mr. George 
W. Scott. 

Tie; the judges were unable to reach a decision. 



Eleventh Debate, May 13, 1904. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Hon. Dimner Beeber. 

Resolved, "That Philadelphia's Select Council should be elected by 
citizens who pay taxes other than poll or occupation tax." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
Winton J. White, '04. S. C. Ladner, '06. 

Wesley L. Hemphill, '04. J. I. Weinstein, '04. 

Joseph A. Beck, '04. M. H. Jacobs, '04. 

S. S. Swartley, '05, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Franklin B. Kirkbride, Professor William E. Lingelbach, 
Rev. K. B. Tupper. 

Decision awarded to Zelosophic Society. 



Twelfth Debate, March 19, 1905. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Rev. William Oxtoby. 

Resolved "That the United States should hold no territory perman- 
ently that it does not intend to make into states." 

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Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
W. W. Walker, '07. W. W. Crawford, '06. 

A. H. Albrecht, '05. C. H. Griffiths, '08. 

C. G. Baudmann, '07. S. S. Swartley, '05. 

J. W. Baker, Alt. Francis Stifler, '06, Alt. 

Judges: Professor Edwin S. Crawley, Professor George B. Gordon and 
Professor Ward Pierson. 

Decision awarded to Zelosophic Society. 



Thirteenth Debate, May 6, 1906. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Provost Charles Custis Harrison. 

Resolved, "That life imprisonment should be substituted for capital 
punishment in Pennsylvania." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 

R. A. Helton, '08. William P. Harbeson, '06. 

Max Wilensky, '08. Frank Paul, '08. 

Maurice White, '09. Robert Adams, '09. 

C. Baudman, '07, Alt. Carl Franzen, '08, Alt. 

Judges: Dr. William E. Lingelbach, Dr. H. V. Ames, Professor George 
R. Mangold. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fourteenth Debate, May 17, 1907. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Resolved, "That the elective system in vogue at Pennsylvania is the 
best available plan for undergraduate study." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
Samuel Rosenbaum, '10. Frank A. Paul, '08. 

I. E. Saunder, '09. A. W. Schick, '07. 

R. A. Helton, '08. A. W. Smith, '09. 

C. G. Baudman, '07, Alt. C. E. Foust, '09, Alt. 

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Judges: Mr. Thomas Martindale, Mr. William C. Mason and Rev. 
William Oxtoby. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fifteenth Debate, March 30, 1908. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Resolved, "That reciprocal free trade with Canada would be economically 
advantageous to the United States." 

Affirmative Zelosophic. Negative Philomathean. 
Theodore Carey, '10. A. W. Smith, '09. 

Charles Paxon, '08. Frank W. Melvin, '08. 

G. Henry Baur, MO. Frank A. Paul, '08. 

S. Rosenbaum, ' 1 0, Alt. W. L. Abbott, '11, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Charles L. McKeehan, Mr. Fletcher W. Stites and Mr. J. 
Ambler Williams. 

Decision awarded to the Zelosophic Society. 



Sixteenth Debate, March 19, 1909. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Provost Charles Custis Harrison. 

Resolved, "That the Federal Government should guarantee bank 
deposits." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 

William L. Abbott, '11. John A. Hartpence, P.G.L. 

Edwin W. Perrott, '11. Theodore C. Carey, '10. 

Charles A. Drefs, '10. Samuel Rosenbaum, '10. 

C.J. Shoemaker, '12, Alt. 

Judges: Hon. J. Willis Martin, Mr. J. J. Foulkrod and Mr. Theodore 
B. Williams. 

Decision awarded to the Zelosophic Society. 

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Seventeenth Debate, April 19, 1910. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. Maurice B. White. 

Resolved, "That the exercise of suffrage by women is not desirable." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 
William L. Abbott, '11. John R. Hart, '11. 

Robert E. Fithian, '13. John Henessy, '11. 

Gilbert R. Hughes, '12. Samuel Rosenbaum, '10. 

Judges: Dr. D. B. Shumway, Professor Fogel and Mr. Henry Hyneman. 
Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Eighteenth Debate, May 23, 1911. 

Held at Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. Charles Custis Harrison. 

Resolved, "That United States Senators should be elected by popular 
vote." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Zelosophic. 

Robert E. Fithian, '13. Frank Parker, '11. 

Gilbert R. Hughes, '12. Sylvan Lang, '13. 

C. Brewster Rhoads, ' 1 3. John R. Hart, '11. 
W. A. Hamilton, '13, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Edwin 0. Lewis, Mr. Thomas Martindale and Mr. E. B. 
Smith. 

Decision awarded to Zelosophic Society. 



In the years 1912 and 1913 Varsity and interclass debating was so 
largely supported by Philo and the Philo and Zelo Plays were so elaborate 
that it was necessary to cancel the annual debates. To continue the friendly 
rivalry a baseball game was substituted in both years. These were both 
won by Philo, scores: 

1912. 1913. 

Philo, 13; Zelo, 12. Philo, 12; Zelo, 6. 

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DEBATES BETWEEN THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY AND 
THE' LOGANIAN SOCIETY OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE. 

Total: Won by Philo, 3; Won by Loganian, 5. 

First Debate, March 10,1 899. 

Held at Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pa. 

Presiding Officer, Ex-Governor Pattison. 

Resolved, "That, except in cases of capital punishment, the rule requir- 
ing unanimity for a legal verdict in the jury system prevailing in the United 
States should be changed." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 

Stanley Folz, '00. Arthur C. Wild. 

Ralph N. Kellam, '00. R. J. Davis. 

J. W. Riddle, '99. William P. Bell. 
H. H. Tryon, Alt. 

Judges: Dr. Edward W. Hitchcock, H. Gordon McCouch, Esq., and 
Rev. John R. Starr. 

Decision awarded to Loganian Society. 



Second Debate, March 30, 1900. 

Held in the College Chapel, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College. 

Resolved, "That the actions of Great Britain with regard to the Trans- 
vaal since 1884 are justifiable." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 
Alfred B. Rice, '00. H. V. Bullinger. 

Ralph N. Kellam, '00. William P. Bell. 

Harold H. Tryon, '00. Francis R. Cope. 

W. McClellan, Alt. G. T. Walenta, Alt. 

Judges: President Thomas Downs of Lehigh, Hon. W. N. Ashman and 
Mr. John R. Converse. 

Decision awarded to the Philomathean Society. 

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Third Debate, April 3, 1901. 

Held at Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pa. 

Presiding Officer, Dean Josiah Harmar Penniman. 

Resolved, "That (all interests considered) it is inadvisable at the present 
time to enforce Section 2 of Amendment XIV of the Constitution relating 
to representation." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 

Calvin 0. Althouse, '02. Richard Patten. 

Robert A. Beggs, '01 . H. V. Bullinger. 
Henry J. Gibbons, '01. 
D. A. Pitt, '02, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Talcott Williams, Hon. Maxwell Stevenson and President 
S. Spangler of Ursinus. 

Decision awarded to Loganian Society. 



Fourth Debate, April 4, 1902. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College. 

Resolved, "That United States Senators should be elected by direct 
vote of the people." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 

George A. Walton, '04. William Phillips, '02. 

Thomas D. Cope, '03. H. Domincovitch, '03. 

Claude L. Roth, '02. Herman Newmann, '02. 

J. A. Anderson, '04, Alt. George Pierce, '03, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. George Burnham, Jr., Mr. J. J. McKenna and Mr. George 
W. Ochs. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fifth Debate, March 27, 1903. 

Held at Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pa. 

Presiding Officer, Provost Charles C. Harrison. 

Resolved, "That the Army Canteen should be restored." 



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Affirmative Haverford. Negative Philomathean. 
W. Carson, '06. H. Edgar Barnes, '05. 

G. K. Helbert, '04. Wesley L. Hemphill, '04. 

H. A. Domincovitch, '03. George A. Walton, '04. 

B. M. Lester, '04, Alt. W. H. G. MacKay, '04, Alt. 

Judges: Rev. B. L. Whitman, Hon. G. Harry Davis and Mr. William 
Morse. 

Decision awarded to Loganian Society. 



Sixth Debate, April 8, 1904. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College. 

Resohed, "That the United States should take a lead in forming a 
coalition of world powers to demand that Russia and Japan should settle 
their differences in the Far East by the Hague Tribunal." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 
Augustus W. Schick, '07. G. K. Hilbert, '04. 

Wesley L. Hemphill, '04. B. M. Lester, '04. 

George A. Walton, '04. W. Carson, '06. 

J. B. Walton, '05, Alt. G. J. Keller, '05, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Harry B. French, Mr. W. H. Furst. 
Decision awarded to the Loganian Society. 



Seventh Debate, April 8, 1905. 

Held at Roberts Hall, Haverford College, Pa. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. John C. Winston. 

Resolved, "That in addition to present restrictions it is desirable to 
limit the right of suffrage in the Municipal elections in our large cities to 
those who pay a tax on real or personal property." 

Affirmative Logan ian . Negative Philomathean. 

Chester Teller, '05. Augustus W. Schick, '07. 

Paul Jones, '06. J. Allen, '08. 

Walter Carson, '06. Frank W. Melvin, '08. 

T. Desmond, '06, Alt. George A. Walton, '04, Alt. 

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Judges: Rev. Francis P. Parkin, Mr. Horace Rumsey and Mr. Alexander 
Simpson. 

Decision awarded to the Loganian Society. 



Eighth Debate, April 12, 1907. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Resolved, "That the disputes between employers and employees in the 
anthracite coal mining industry of Pennsylvania should be settled by a 
board of arbitration constituted by Legislative authority with power to 
enforce its findings; in which board each party shall have equal representa- 
tion and an additional member or umpire to be appointed by the Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Loganian. 
Frank A. Paul, '08. T. P. Ekinston, '08. 

A. Walter Smith, '09. H. G. Evans, '07. 

Frank W. Melvin, '08. C. K. Drinker, '08. 

H. C. Craner, '10, Alt. S. A. Loenstein, '09, Alt. 

Decision awarded to the Philomathean Society. 



DEBATES BETWEEN THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY AND 
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 

Total: Won by Philo, 1 ; Won by North Carolina, 4. 

First Debate, 1907. 

Held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

Resolved, "That the tariff should be reduced by the next Congress." 
Affirmative North Carolina. Negative Philomathean. 

P. N. Williams. A. Walter Smith, '08. 

T. W. Andrews. Frank W. Melvin, '08. 

Frank A. Paul, '08, Alt. 

Decision awarded to the Philomathean Society. 

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Second Debate, November 13, 1908. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. William E. Lingelbach. 

Resolved, "That pooling of interstate traffic and rates shall be legalized." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative North Carolina. 

Edwin W. Perrott, '11. J. W. Umstead, Jr. 

Charles A. Drefs, '10. K. D. Battle. 

Judges: Messrs. Moffett, Rawle and Gleason. 
Decision awarded to North Carolina. 



Third Debate, 1909. 

Held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

Resolved, "That aside from all constitutional questions involved, the 
National Government should levy a tax on inheritances." 

Affirmative North Carolina. Negative Philomathean. 

Eugene E. Barnett. Edwin W. Perrott. 

J. H. Highsmith. Frederick W. Koschwitz. 

Decision awarded to North Carolina. 



Fourth Debate, 1910. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. William M. Crowe. 

Resolved, "That the United States should establish a central bank." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative North Carolina. 

Gilbert Hughes, '12. W. F. Taylor. 

C. Brewster Rhoads, '13. C. L. Williams. 

Judges: Mr. David Wallerstein and Professor J. P. Lichtenberger. 
Decision awarded to North Carolina. 



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Fifth Debate, 1911. 

Held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

Resolved, "That all the forest and mineral lands now in the possession 
of the United States, in the several states should be retained by the Federal 
Government." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative North Carolina. 

Gilbert R. Hughes, '12. F. P. Barker. 

Earlston L. Hargett, '14. C. W. Wharton. 

Decision awarded to North Carolina. 



DEBATES BETWEEN THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 
AND THE PHILOLEXIAN SOCIETY OF 
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 

Total: Won by Philomathean, 5; Won by Philolexian, 1. 

First Debate, December 6, 1907. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Dr. Edward P. Cheyney. 

Resolved, "That Congress should impose a progressive inheritance 
tax constitutionality conceded." 

Affirmative Philolexian. Negative Philomathean. 
McAllister Coleman, '09. Frank W. Melvin, '08. 

Winston Paul, '09. John C. Bechtel, '08. 

W. J. MacGreevey, '08. Frank A. Paul, '08. 

J. W. Melvill, '09, Alt. C. H. Hoover, '10, Alt. 

Judges: Professor Jacob Rohrbach, Dr. F. B. Brandt and Mr. H. S. 
Hooper. 

Decision awarded to the Philomathean Society. 



Second Debate, January 8, 1909. 

Held at Earl Hall, Columbia University. 

Presiding Officer, Dean J. H. Van Armringe. 

Resolved, "That Public Service Corporations should be controlled by 
state commissions." 

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Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Philolexian. 
Carl H. Hoover, '10. W. Paul, '09. 

W. L. Abbott, Ml. Geddes Smith, ' 1 0. 

C. A. Drefs, '10. W. D. Heydecker, '11. 

H. C. Craner, 10, Alt. N. H. Angell. '10, Alt. 

Judges: Hon. J. E. Eustis, Hon. M. C. Jessup and Hon. R. E. Farley. 
Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Third Debate, January 14, 1910. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania. 

Presiding Officer, Solomon S. Huebner. 

Resolved, "That the commission form of government should be adopted 
in American municipalities." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Philolexian. 
William M. Crowe, '12. A. J. Grumm, '11. 

Carl H. Hoover, '10. A. W. MacMahon, '12. 

Charles A. Drefs, ' 1 0. Leon Fraser, ' 1 0. 

W.L. Abbott, '11, Alt. 

Judges: Messrs. Raymond MacNeille, Albert H. Coggins and George 
McCracken. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Fourth Debate, April 9, 191 1. 

Held at Earl Hall, Columbia University. 

Presiding Officer, Mr. William Neeley Ross. 

Resolved, "That a central bank should be established in the United 
States." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Philolexian. 
William L. Abbott, '11. R. S. Harris, '10. 

Gilbert R. Hughes, '12. J. K. McCormick, '13. 

Robert E. Fithian, '13. P. L. Moon, '13. 

C. B. Rhoads, '13, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Thomas Coynington, Mr. A. D. Noyes and Mr. C. A. 
Conant. 

Decision awarded to the Philomathean Society. 

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Fifth Debate, March 22, 1912. 

Held at Price Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

Presiding Officer, Moderator William D. Shelley. 

Resolved, "That women should now be given equal suffrage with men 
in the United States." 

Affirmative Philolexian. Negative Philomathean. 

H. B. Henderson, '13. Randolph G. Adams, '14. 

A. H. Cawston, '14. Allan C. Hopkins, '14. 

J. R. Ellenwood, '13. Gilbert R. Hughes, '12. 

J. W. Swain, Alt. C. H. Epplesheimer, ' 1 3, Alt. 

Judges: Hon. E. Clinton Rhoads, Professor George C. Roth and Mr. 
E. C. Klink. 

Decision awarded to Philomathean Society. 



Sixth Debate, April 5, 1913. 

Held at Earl Hall, Columbia University. 

Presiding Officer, Rev. Raymond C. Knox. 

Resohed, "That the Presidential term should be changed to one term 
of six years." 

Affirmative Philomathean. Negative Philolexian. 

Wallace G. Arnold, '14. J. K. McCormick, '13. 

Charles C. Butterworth, '15. D. Campbell, '15. 

Randolph G. Adams, '14. J. R. Ellenwood, '13. 

L. F. Sanville, '15, Alt. 

Judges: Mr. Charles R. Fay, Dr. John Remer and Professor Vernon 
Stauffer. 

Decision awarded to Philolexian Society. 



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THE PHILOMATHEAN PRIZES 





HAMPTON LAWRENCE CARSON, 71 
Ex-Attorney General of 
Pennsylvania 



HON. JOHN MARSHALL GEST, 
Judge of Orphans' Court 
Philadelphia 



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HON. CHARLES YOUNG AUDENRIED, '83 

Judge of Court of Common Pleas 

Philadelphia 



JOHN STOKES ADAMS, '84 

Member of Auxiliary Law Faculty at the 

University of Pennsylvania 



THE WINNERS OF THE PHILO PRIZES 

It has been the custom of the Society, for many years, to 
offer prizes to those of its members who have participated in 
contests in debating, essay writing and oratory held in the Society. 
The method of conducting these contests has been changed from 
time to time with the changes in the constitution and by-laws 
but in the main it has consisted of money prizes awarded by 
the Society upon the decision of a board of judges usually com- 
posed of senior members of Philo in the faculty. An examination 
of the numerous old constitutions in the Philomathean Library 
will explain why the number of prizes has varied so from year to 
year. 

These prize contests certainly existed as early as 1871 and 
the prize-winners from that date to 1 91 3 are here given. Previous 
to 1871 there are no records of prizes awarded, but the system 
seems to have grown from the "Philomathean Exhibitions/' 
which were given as early as 1814 and were participated in by 
members elected for that purpose. The public was invited to 
these "Exhibitions" and they consisted mainly of orations. 

The editors have compiled this list, partly because it is his- 
tory and partly because the men who won these prizes are those 
who have done hard work in Philo and whose performances in the 
Society, as illustrated elsewhere in this book, are here explained 
by their activity in these lines of Philomathean endeavor. 

1871. Debate Prizes 1. W. G. Freedley, 71. 

2. G. T. Purves, 72. 

3. F. L. Sheppard, 72. . . 

Essay Prize 1. H. L. Carson, 71. 

Oratory Prize 1 . H. L. Carson, 71 . 

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1872. 

1873. Debate Prizes 1. W. F. Whitaker, 73. 

2. P. H. Hickman, 73. 

3. J. D. Junkin, 74. 

Essay Prize 1 . S. Money, Jr., 74. 

Oratory Prizes 1. C. A. Besson, 73. 

2. J. D. Junkin, 74. 

3. S. Money, Jr., 74. 

1874. Debate Prizes 1. C. A. Ashburner, 74. 

2. J. F. Maher, 74. 

3. J. W. Townsend, 75. 
Essay Prizes 1 . J. D. Junkin, 74. 

2. C. Morris, 75. 

Oratory Prizes 1. J. D. Junkin, 74 

2. W. W. Porter, 75. 

1875. Debate Prizes 1. J. W. Townsend, 75. 

2. L. Lewis, Jr., 76. 

3. W. C. Bullitt, 76. 
Oratory Prizes 1 . W. W. Porter, 75. 

2. W. L. Saunders, 76. 

1876. Debate Prizes 1. L. Lewis, Jr., 76. 

2. W. L. Saunders, 76. 

3. F. A. Lewis, 77. 
Essay Prizes 1 . L. Lewis, Jr., 76. 

2. J. B. Gest, 79. 

3. F. W. Iredell, 76. 
Oratory Prizes 1. W. L. Saunders, 76. 

2. E. H. Miller, 79. 

1877. Debate Prizes 1. C. A. 0. Roselle, 77. 

2. T. Robins, 77. 

3. J. Neill, Jr., 77. 
Oratory Prizes 1. T. Robins, 77. 

2. J. Neill, Jr., 77. 

1878. Debate Prizes 1. G. S. Fullerton, 79. 

2. T. B. Prichett, 78. 

3. E. H. Miller, 79. 

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1878. Essay Prizes 1. C. P. Henry, 78. 

2. E. H. Miller, 79. 

Oratory Prizes 1. G. W. Roberts, 79. 

2. W. P. Breed, 78. 

1879. Debate Prizes 1. C. Wadsworth, '80. 

2. G. S. Fullerton, 79. 

3. H. S. Jefferys, 79. 

4. H. H. Bonnell, '80. 
Essay Prizes 1. G. S. Fullerton, 79. 

2. C. Wadsworth, '80. 

3. H. H. Bonnell, '80. 

4. C. P. Henry, 78. 
Oratory Prizes 1. E. E. Read, Jr., 79. 

2. S. Mallet-Prevost, '81, 

1880. Debate Prize 1. C. Wadsworth, '80. 

Essay Prizes I. T. E. Schmauk, '80. 

2. C. Wadsworth, '80. 

Oratory Prizes 1. C. Wadsworth, '80. 

2. H. H. Bonnell, '80. 

1881. Debate Prizes 1. E. F. Lott, '82. 

2. S. Mallet-Prevost, '81 

3. G. C. Lancaster, '82. 
Essay Prizes 1. J. R. Moses, '83. 

2. E. Records, '84. 

Oratory Prizes 1. S. Mallet-Prevost, '81 

2. F. E. Schelling, '81. 

1882. DebatePrizes 1. E. F. Lott, '82. 

2. G. C. Lancaster, '82. 

3. L. M. Bullitt, '83. 
Essay Prizes 1 . W. D. Roberts, '84. 

2. E. P. Cheyney, '83. 

Oratory Prizes 1. E. M. Fergusson, '83. 

2. G. C. Lancaster, '82. 

1 883. Debate Prizes 1 . E. P. Cheyney. '83. 

2. F. E. Smiley, '83. 

3. J. S. Adams, '84. 

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1883. Essay Prizes 1. R. P. Falkner, '85. 

2. E. M. Fergusson, '83. 

Oratory Prize 1. C. W. Burr, '83. 

2. A. W. Stevenson, '83. 

3. R. P. Falkner, '85. 

1884. DebatePrizes ......1. E. P. Cheyney, '83. 

2. L. L. Smith, '84. 

3. J. D. Steele, '84. 
Essay Prizes 1. C. D. Hening, '86. 

2. F. Lambader, '84. 

Oratory Prizes 1 . J. S. Adams, '84. 

2. R. P. Falkner, '85. 

1885. DebatePrize 1. J. Fernie, '85. 

Oratory Prizes 1. J. S. Durham, '85. 

2. M. B. Young, '87. 

1886. Debate Prizes 1. A. W. Seguin, '87. 

2. D. S. Miller, '88. 

3. M. Rommel, '86. 

4. C. D. Hening, '86. 
Oratory Prize 1. L. Witmer, '88. 

1887. Debate Prizes 1. D. S. Miller, '88. 

2. L. Witmer, '88. 

Essay Prizes 1. L. Witmer, '88. 

2. D. W. Amram, '87. 

Oratory Prizes 1. L. Witmer, '88. 

2. C. N. C. Brown, '89. 

3. J. W. Campion, '88. 

1888. Debate Prizes 1. L. Witmer, '88. 

2. D. S. Miller, '88. 

3. J. H. Penniman, '90. 
Essay Prizes 1. M. Kushida, '90. 

2. C. N. C. Brown, '89. 

Oratory Prizes 1. J. C. Mitchell, '89. 

2. H. I. Brown, '91. 

1889. Debate Prizes 1. M. Kushida, '90. 

2. H. W. Ogden, '90. 

3. H. I. Brown, '91. 

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1889. Essay Prizes 1. C. Dillingham, '89. 

2. C. Peabody, '89. 

3. M. Kushida, '90. 

4. W. DuHammel, '89. 
Oratory Prizes 1. H. W. Ogden, '90. 

2. W. H. Loyd, '90. 

3. R. H. Klauder, '89. 

1890. Debate Prizes 1. M. Kushida, '90. 

2. H. W. Ogden, '90. 

3 Q T. Lee, '92. 
Essay Prizes 1 . R. N. Willson, '93. 

2. C. R. Williams, '92. 
Oratory Prizes 1. J. D. Perry, '91. 

2. V. F. Gable, '92. 

1891. DebatePrizes 1. E. A. Singer, '92. 

2. Clifton Maloney, '92. 

3. F. S. Edmonds, '93. 
Essay Prizes 1 . G. Johnson, '93. 

2. F. H. Lee, '93. 

Oratory Prizes 1. R. N. Willson, '93. 

2. G. J. Fox, '94. 

1893. Debate Prizes 1. F. S. Edmonds, '93. 

2. G. D. Codman, '94. 

3. J. Nolen, '93. 
Essay Prizes 1. E. J. Burk, '95. 

2. F. H. Lee, '93. 

3. R. N. Willson, '93. 
Oratory Prizes 1. F. S. Edmonds, '93. 

2. G. D. Codman, '94. 

1894. Debate Prizes 1. G. D. Codman, '94. 

2. C. M. Jacobs, '95. 

3. J. D. McMullin. '95. 

Essay Prize 1. E. J. Burk, '95. 

Oratory Prize 1. R. Ashhurst, '95. 

1895. Debate Prizes 1. C. L. McKeehan, '97. 

2. W. Morse, '97. 

3. B. S. Easton, '98. 

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1895. Essay Prizes 1. J. A. McKeon, '95. 

2. G. I. Vincent, '98. 

Oratory Prizes 1. J. A. McKeon, '95. 

2. C. L. McKeehan, '97. 

1896. Debate Prizes 1. J. D. Mahoney, '97. 

2. C. S. Langstroth, '98. 
Essay Prizes 1. F. S. McGrath, '98. 

2. J. D. Mahoney, '97. 
Oratory Prize 1. J. D. Mahoney, '97. 

1897. Debate Prizes 1. F. S. McGrath, '98. 

2. B. S. Easton, '98. 
Essay Prize 1. F. S. McGrath, '98. 

1898. Debate Prizes 1. J. W. Riddle, '00. 

2. H.J. Gibbons, '01. 

Essay Prize 1. L. Dix, '99. 

Oratory Prize 1. F. S. McGrath, '98. 

1899. Essay Prizes 1. D. M. Karcher, '00. 

2. A. B. Rice, '00. 

1900. Debate Prizes 1. H. J. Gibbons, '01. 

2. C. 0. Althouse, '02. 
Essay Prizes 1 . A. Gaw, '00. 

2. H.J. Gibbons, '01. 

3. D. S. Keller. 

4. O.T.Allis, '01. 
Oratory Prize 1. R. A. Beggs, '01. 

1901. Debate Prizes 1. W. Allen, '03. 

2. R. A. Beggs, '01. 
Essay Prizes 1. H. J. Gibbons, '01. 

2. D. A. Pitt, '02. 

3. H. S. Rambo, '03. 
Oratory Prizes 1. D. A. Pitt, '02. 

2. C. P. Swayne, '03. 

1902. Debate Prizes 1. T. D. Cope, '03. 

2. C. L. Roth, '02. 

Essay Prizes 1. R. K. Yerkes, '03. 

2. P. R. Stockman, '04. 



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1902. Oratory Prizes 1. D. A. Pitt, '02. 

2. M. B. Stallman, '03. 

1903. Debate Prizes 1. H. E. Barnes, '05. 

2. G. A. Walton, '04. 
Essay Prizes 1. W. L. Hemphill, '04. 

2. G. V. Hoskins, '04. 
Oratory Prizes 1. S. S. Swartley, '05. 

2. W. H. G. MacKay, '04. 

1904. Essay Prizes 1. S. S. Swartley, '05. 

2. F. A. Child, '05. 

Oratory Prizes 1. W. L. Hemphill, '04. 

2. A. W. Shick, '07. 

1905. Debate Prizes 1 . C. H. Griffith, '08. 

2. S. S. Swartley, '05. 

Essay Prize 1. W. P. Harbeson, '06. 

Oratory Prizes 1. F. A. Child, '05. 

2. C. H. Griffith, '08. 

1906. Debate Prizes 1. F. A. Paul, '08. 

2. W. P. Harbeson, '06. 
Essay Prizes 1. W. P. Harbeson, '06. 

2. W.W.Crawford, '06. 
Oratory Prizes 1. F. A. Paul, '08. 

2. R. R. Adams. 

1907. Debate Prizes 1. F. A. Paul, '08. 

2. A. W. Smith, '09. 

3. F. W. Melvin, '08. 
Essay Prizes 1 . C. G. Franzen, '08. 

2. M. H. Elliott, '07. 

Oratory Prizes 1. C. E. Foust, '09. 

2. F. A. Paul, '08. 

1908. Debate Prizes 1. A. W. Smith, '09. 

2. F. A. Paul, '08. 
Essay Prizes 1. F. A. Paul, '08. 

2. C. H. Hoover, '10. 
Oratory Prizes 1. C. E. Foust, '09. 

2. F. W. Melvin, '08. 

3. W. R. White, '08. 

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1909. Debate Prizes 1. E. W. Perrott, '11. 

2. W.L. Abbott, '11. 

Essay Prizes 1. W. H. R. Trumbauer, '12. 

2. J. R. Ullrich, '10. 

Oratory Prizes 1. T. C. F. Quo, '12. 

2. C. A. Drefs, '10. 

1910. Debate Prizes 1. W. L. Abbott, '11. 

2. A. W. Marriott, '10. 

1911. Debate Prizes 1. C. B. Rhoads, '13. 

2. G. R. Hughes, '12. 

1912. Debate Prizes 1. C. H. Epplesheimer, '13. 

2. W. M. Crowe, '12. 

1913. Debate Prizes 1. R. G. Adams, '14. 

2. W. G. Arnold, '14. 
Essay Prize 1. R. A. Arrison, '15. 



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PH1LOMATHEANS IN UNIVERSITY 
DEBATING 



PHILOMATHEANS ON THE UNIVERSITY DEBATE 

TEAMS 

Following the lead of several of the large eastern colleges, 
Pennsylvania took up debating as an intercollegiate contest in 
1894. Since that time either one or two teams of three men each 
have been put in the field by the University every year. The 
following is a list of those members of Philo who have "made" 
the Varsity team from 1894 to 1913. 

1894-95. Murdoch Kendrick, '93 C, '96 L. 

1895-96. Charles McKeehan, '97 C. 

1896-97. Charles McKeehan, '97 C. 

1897-98. 

1898-99. William H. Allen, '03 C.; John W. Riddle, '99 C. 

1899-00. Stanley Folz, '00; John W. Riddle, '99 C. 

1900-01. Claude L. Roth, '02 C. 

1901-02. Thomas D. Cope, '03 C.; Paxon Deeter, '03 C.; Claude L. 

Roth, '02 C. 
1902-03. H. Edgar Barnes, '05 C.; Thomas D. Cope, '03 C.; Paxon 

Deeter, '03 C.; Winton J. White, '04 C. 
1903-04. John M. Ashton, '07 C. 
1904-05. John M. Ashton, '07 C.; Wm. H. Walker, '06 C.; B. A. Milner. 

'06 C. 
1905-06. Frank W. Melvin, '08 C.; B. A. Milner, '06 C.; Frank A. Paul, 

'08 C.; Augustus W. Shick, '07 C. 

1906-07. Frank A. Paul, '08 C.; Augustus W. Shick, '07 C. 
1907-08. Frank A. Paul, '08 C. 

1908-09. Charles A. Drefs, 'IOC.; Frank A. Paul, '08 C. 
1909-10. Charles A. Drefs, '10 C.; Carl H. Hoover, '10 C. 
1910-11. W. Lewis Abbott, '11 C; F. H. Koschwitz, '12 C.; C. Brewster 

Rhoads, '13 C. 
1911-12. F. H. Koschwitz, '12 C; C. Brewster Rhoads, '13 C.; George 

W. Rowley, '13 C. 
1912-13. Earlston L. Hargett, '14 C.; George W. Rowley, '13 C.; Alfred 

H. Williams, '15 C.; Randolph G. Adams, '14 C. 



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THE FRAZIER DEBATE PRIZE 



In 1898 William West Frazier, '86, an ex-Moderator of Philo, 
established at the University two debating prizes of forty and 
twenty dollars respectively to be competed for by those who made 
one of the University Debating Teams, thus opening the compe- 
tition to all departments. The following list includes all those 
who have won the prizes, members of Philo being marked thus (*). 



FIRST PRIZE. 

1898. Thomas R. White. 

1 899. Charles E. Morgan. 

1900. Henry W. Bikle. 

1901. Milton L. Veasey. 

1902. John W. D. Farris. 

1903. J. Ambler Williams. 

1904. George W. Maxey. 

1905. William H. Walker.* 

1906. Augustus W. Shick.* 

1907. No debate in this year. 

1908. DaleKParke. 

1909. G. Henry Baur. 

1910. Henry I. Hyneman. 

1911. Henry I . Hyneman. 

1912. Carroll Brewster Rhoads.* 

1913. Earlston L. Hargett.* 



SECOND PRIZE. 
William C. Johnson. 
Roland S. Morris. 
Walter C. Janney. 
Bruce A. Metzgar. 
Horace Stern. 
Richard W. Barrett. 
William R. Langfeld. 
Charles E. Asnis. 
Frank A. Paul.* 

Joseph A. Dolan. 
Arthur J. Culler. 
G. Henry Baur. 
Samuel Rosenbaum. 
Frederick H. Koschwitz.* 
Randolph G. Adams.* 



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Most garrets contain curiosities and the region immediately 
beneath the roof of College Hall is no exception to this rule. More 
than one visitor who has panted to the library of the Philomathean 
Society has seen there, among many other relics and memorials 
of bygone days at Pennsylvania, an old bowl upon whose battered 
inner surface are painted six fraternity emblems surrounding the 
picture of a dejected-looking rooster labeled "After the Fight." 
In those days a bowl fight was not the artificial, prearranged, cut- 
and-dried affair that it is today. There were no "fight-marshals" 
paid by souvenirs which the man paying the bill is told to con- 
tribute to the umbrella stand of upper-classmen that someone 
else has chosen. There were no rules and no halves; no judges 
of "bowl-fight ethics" and no time-keepers; no definite limits 
and no chance of finishing the fight in the short space of time it 
takes the bowl man to run the length of Franklin Field; there was 
not a portion of both classes on the side lines and another blase 
group discoursing upon the "relic of barbarism" and the "childish 
nonsense." There were no comments such as "Excuse me, I 
thought you were a Freshman," or "Are you a Sophomore?" 

In the fight in which the old bowl, to which the Philomathean 
Society has a better right than the owner of any bowl before or 
since, played a part, there were two homogeneous groups that 
knew what they were fighting for and fought until they got it 
or were defeated. For this was the bowl of the Class of 1882 
and it has probably been the subject of more contests of different 
kinds than any other bowl in the history of the University of 
Pennsylvania. After having been kept intact by the Class of 
Eighty-two, on the day of the bowl fight, December 24, 1879, 

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it was presented on January 1 6, 1 880, to the Philomathean Society 
by the members of the class who were also members of Philo 
Gustavus Remak, Thomas D. Finletter, J. Campbell Lancaster 
and others. It remained there during the succeeding year. It 
was not an object of satisfaction to the class that had not succeeded 
in breaking it; and they abused it on all occasions. Eighty-two's 
Class Record in an account, rather irreverently written in Biblical 
style, speaks of this controversy, as follows : 

"3. They set up a bowl which should be as a sign of their 
victory. . . 5. But the Fresh seeing it were grieved, and 
counseled in secret how they might take vengeance on the Sophites. 
6. One warrior of the Fresh. . . did make mock of the bowl, 
which the men of the Sophs had set up and did despitefully use 
it. 7. And in the twelfth month when the snow covered the earth 
he did liken it to a sled and did slide therein." 

Eighty-two resolved to defend their bowl from this ill- 
treatment. So on December 23, 1881, William M. Hornor, of 
'82, made a motion at a meeting of the Society to return the bowl 
to the Class of Eighty-two. Logan M. Bullitt and Charles Y. 
Audenried headed the Eighty-three host in the controversy 
that followed. They saw that they were in the minority, and 
as a number of years before the Democratic minority in Speaker 
Reed's House of Representatives had made the same move on a 
larger chess-board, they resolved to refuse to answer the roll-call 
on Hornor's motion and hoped thus to break a quorum. The 
Eighty-two men were not to be outdone. They anticipated 
Czar Reed's famous ruling that a quorum if present should be 
counted whether answering or not. The Moderator, Remak, 
ordered the doors closed and counted the silent Eight-three men 
as present, for the purpose of making a quorum; and the motion 
was carried and the possession of the bowl delivered to Eighty-two. 

But Logan Bullitt gave an early display of the fondness 
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against city contractors and filed a Bill in Equity in the Court 
of Common Pleas No. 1 to regain possession of the bowl. The 
case is entitled "Beaseley et al. vs. Allyn et a/." and can be found 
in the Court Records of Philadelphia County, December term, 
1881 , No. 882. Beaseley's "d air were the Eighty-three men who 
were members of Philo and Allyn's "et al." were the whole class 
of Eighty-two. William M. Hornor was duly appointed by the 
Orphans' Court "guardian ad litem" for such of the Eighty-two 
men as were under twenty-one years of age, and John R. Moses 
for the Eighty-three men. They were both members of Philo 
and were ever afterward regarded as the parents of their classes. 
Francis A. Lewis, Esq., an alumnus of Philo, was counsel for 
Eighty-three, and H. Laussatt Geyelin, another senior member 
of Philo and now president of the University of Pennsylvania 
Athletic Association, together with E. Copee Mitchell, for Eighty- 
two. Eighty-two's object was now to prolong the legal contest 
until after Class Day so that the bowl could be displayed on 
that occasion. Their attorneys, therefore, filed a demurrer to 
Bullitt's bill on the ground that it was "frivolous," that the 
bowl had no intrinsic value, and that the whole affair was "de 
minimis" This demurrer was argued before the Court in Bane, 
Judges Allison, Peirce and Biddle, and on July 8, 1 882, President 
Judge Allison delivered the opinion of the Court. It is reported 
in the Weekly Notice of Cases, volume XII, page 90. The Court 
decided that if the bowl was worth fighting for it was worth 
the attention of the Court. By this time, however, Class Day had 
passed, and Eighty-two had had their bowl then; so the case was 
settled to the satisfaction of Eighty-three as well, upon the under- 
standing that Eighty-two would return the bowl to Philo and upon 
the other hand, that Philo would preserve it carefully from injury 
for all time. 

Today, guests at Philo smokers see it filled with tobacco 
and cigarettes, but its most important service is rendered on Senior 

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Night. The last meeting before the Philomathean Commence- 
ment is given up to festivities and the bowl is placed upon a table 
while a Freshman climbs into it. The Freshman then delivers 
a speech upon the Senior Class while the Censores Morum revolve 
the bowl. By the time the Freshman reaches his peroration he 
thinks he is seeing all four sides of the room at once. Later the 
bowl is put back in its accustomed place between the book-cases 
and is kept from all harm until the next year. 



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THE PHILOMATHEAN PLAYS 



THE PHILO PLAYS 

Dramatic productions are Philo's most recently instituted 
form of activity. The Philo plays owe their existence to two 
factors which have many times been active in the Society. One 
is lack of funds which has always made the members work when 
all else has failed, while the other is that which Philo alone of 
all the organized groups at the University seems to foster for 
its own sake: a love of old things. It was not the purpose of 
the Society to compete with that Dramatic Organization at 
the University whose productions are famous throughout the 
college world and whose unbroken line of success has put Pennsyl- 
vania far in advance of every other college in the field of dramatic 
productions. Even hostile critics are forced to acknowledge the 
superiority of the Mask and Wig Play. But the Mask and 
Wig Club has confined itself to the production of comic opera 
and left to other hands the task of reviving the good things of 
former years. 

In 1904 the Ben Greet Company came to the University 
and gave some of its famous Shakespearean plays in the Botanical 
Gardens of the University. This was done under the joint 
auspices of the Zelosophic and Philomathean Societies and the 
affair was managed by a committee of which Walter C. Pugh, 
'04, of Philo, was the chairman. A graded terrace in the Gardens 
furnished an ideal stage, while the arrangement of the trees and 
the thickly planted shrubbery formed a background and wings 
with exits and entrances which were as naturally as they were 
conveniently located. Since 1904 both the Ben Greet Company 
and the Coburn Players have visited Pennsylvania and given 

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difficult by some thirty entrances in the course of the play. N. R. 
C. Fretz, '15, as "Dol," so cleverly concealed his sex that the 
play was more than half over when a lady in the audience in 
utter surprise exclaimed, "Why, it's a boy!" 

Philo considers these plays worth while, irrespective of 
financial, educational and artistic considerations, because of 
their value in preserving that old Pennsylvania spirit, so difficult 
to keep alive in this day when little respect is paid by the under- 
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CYCLE OF MYSTERIES 

Presented by the Philomathean Society in the Botanical Gardens of 
the University of Pennsylvania. 

Afternoon and evening of May 20, 1908. 

DRAMATIS PERSONA. 

First Shepherd A. Walter Smith, '08. 

Second Shepherd Walter R. White, '08. 

Third Shepherd Maurice B. Homer, '10. 

Mak Carl H. Hoover, '10. 

Gyll, his wife Percy S. Strauss, '09. 

Angel George B. Krautz, Jr., '09. 

Virgin Mary William S. Carpenter, '11. 

A Boy Carl G. F. Franzen, '08. 

Scene: Northern England. 

Master of Properties Carl Hoover, '10. 

Director F. A. Child. 

Play Manager Charles J. Cole, Jr., '09. 

Business Manager Arthur H. Miller, '09. 




OF THE 

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TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON 

An Elizabethan Comedy by Henry Porter, presented by the Philo- 
mathean Society in the Botanical Gardens of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, May 21 and 22, 1909. 

DRAMATIS PERSONA. 

Master Goursey Chas. J. Cole, '09. 

Master Barnes Robt. B. W. Hutt, '09. 

Francis Goursey Philip Work, '09. 

Philip Barnes W. H. Trumbauer, '12. 

Sir Ralph Smith A. W. Marriott, '10. 

DickCoomes\ r / W. D. Shelly, ' 1 2. 

.. j > Servants to Goursey < A D D . . , I5 

Hodge ) (A. R. Bechtel, 13. 

Nicholas \ c n / Allen I. Huckins, '09. 

D , > Servants to Barnes < ~ ,, T , 1n 

Proverbs) (D. M. Lay, 10. 

Boy C. J. Shoemaker, '12. 

Mistress Goursey W. L. Ritter, '10. 

Mistress Barnes A. B. Gilfillan, '10. 

Mall Barnes W. S. Carpenter, '12. 

Scene: Abington. 

Time: The Sixteenth Century. 

Director F. A. Child. 

Chairman Play Committee Frederic C. Dietz, '09. 



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MUCEDORUS 

An Elizabethan Comedy by Thomas Lodge, presented for the first 
time since the Age of Elizabeth by the Philomathean Society in the 
Botanical Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania, May 16, 17 and 
18, 1911. 

DRAMATIS PERSONA. 

Comedy R. T. Bonsall, '14. 

Envy M. C. Boyd, '13. 

King of Vakntia A. L. Arnold, '12. 

Mucedorus, his son W. H. Trumbauer, '12. 

Anselmo, friend of Mucedorus R. G. Adams, '14. 

King of Aragon R. F. Smith, '13. 

Amadine, his daughter W. G. Arnold, '14. 

Segasto, a wealthy noble betrothed to Amadine H. D. Learned, '12. 

Collin, a counsellor of Aragon\ \*r \n n MI 

~ ' . . > W. M. Crowe, 12. 

Tremelto, a captain J 

Rumbelo, a soldier S. L. Shanaman, ' 1 2. 

Ariena, maid to Amadine R. T. Bonsall, '14. 

Mouse, a clown W. D. Shelly, '12. 

Bremo, a wild man A. J. Snyder, '14. 

Old Woman\ r- T tr MJ 

ABear /' E. L. Hargett, 14. 

INDUCTION. 

Scene I Court Gardens, Valentia. 

Scene II Forest, Aragon. 

Scene III Court Gardens, Aragon. 

Scene IV Forest. 

Scene V Court Gardens, Aragon. 

Scene VI Forest. 

Scene VII Court Gardens, Aragon. 

EPILOGUE. 

Chairman Play Committee W. H. Trumbauer, '12. 

Directors (F. A. Child 

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THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY 

An Elizabethan Comedy by Thomas Dekker, presented by the Philo- 
mathean Society in the Botanical Gardens of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, May 15, 16 and 17, 1912. 

DRAMATIS PERSONA. 

Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln R. T. Bonsall, '14. 

5/r Roger Oately, Lord Mayor of London A. C. Hopkins, '14. 

Lacy, otherwise Hans, nephew of Lincoln G. W. Rowley, ' 1 3. 

Simon Eyre, the shoemaker W. D. Shelly, '13. 

Hodge\,. . /E.L.Hargett, '14. 

.... . > his journeymen < ~ ~ D , M _ 

Firk ) {C. C. Butterworth, 15. 

Margery, his wife W. H. Trumbauer, '12. 

Jane, wife to Ralph W. F. Clinger, '14. 

Ralph, Eyre's journeyman R. G. Adams, '14. 

Dodger, servant of Lincoln A. L. Arnold, ' 1 2. 

Rose, daughter of Sir Roger W. G. Arnold, '14. 

Sybil, servant of Rose G. L. Arnhold, '15. 

Boy D. R. Jones, '15. 

Master Hammon, citizen of London L. F. Sanville, ' 1 5. 

Serving Man to Hammon L. A. Sylvester, ' 1 4. 

King H. D. Learned, '12. 

Lords, knights and attendants. 

Scene: London and Old Ford. 

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THE ALCHEMIST 

A Comedy by Ben Jonson, presented by the Philomathean Society 
at the South Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, 
May 22, 1913. 

DRAMATIS PERSONA. 

Face, the housekeeper C. C. Butterworth, A. '15. 

Subtle, the alchemist R. E. Dengler, A. '15. 

Dol Common, their colleague N. R. C. Fretz, Wh. '15. 

Dapper, a lawyer's clerk L. W. Garlichs, Wh. '15. 

Drugger, a tobacco man H. G. Sweney, A. '15. 

Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight L. F. Sanville, Wh. ' 1 5. 

Pertinax Surly, a gamester E. L. Hargett, Wh. '14. 

Ananias, a deacon from Amsterdam W. F. Byron, A. '14. 

Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor there M. C. Boyd, A. '13. 

Kastril, the angry boy R. G. Adams, A. '14. 

Dame Pliant, his sister D. R. Jones, A. '15. 

Lovewit, the master of the house W. G. Arnold, A. '14. 

Officer K. R. Alden, A. '15. 

H. G. Sweney, A. '15. 

H.F.Brall,A. '15. 

W. A. Pendleton, A. '16, 



Neighbors 



E. R. Anschiitz, A. '16. 
C. E. Henry, Wh. '16. 
K.R.Alden,A. '15. 



Scene: Locewit's House in London. 

Stage Manager and Coach Dr. Earle C. Rice. 

Assistant Stage Manager R. A. Arrison, '15. 

Business Manager R. T. Bonsall, '14. 



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'DOL AND MAMMON" 



"FACE' 





"SURLY" "SUBTLE 1 

FROM 'THE ALCHEMIST" 



PHILOMATHEANS AMONG THE OFFICERS OF 
THE UNIVERSITY 

Board of Trustees. 

Charles Custis Harrison, '62. Joshua Bertram Lippincott, '78. 

Samuel Dickson, '55. Emngham Buckley Morris, 75. 

George Wharton Pepper, '87. 

College Department. 

Josiah Harmar Penniman, '90, Professor of English and Vice-Provost. 
Felix E. Schelling, '81, John Welsh Professor of English. 
Edward Potts Cheyney, '83, Professor of History. 
Horace Clark Richards, '88, Professor of Physics. 
Daniel Bussier Shumway, '89, Professor of German. 
Lightner Witmer, '89, Professor of Psychology. 
Cornelius Weygandt, '91, Professor of English Literature. 
Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr., '92, Professor of Philosophy. 
George Hervey Hallett, '93, Professor of Mathematics. 
William Pepper, '94, Dean of Medical School. 
Thomas Darlington Cope, '03, Assistant Professor of Physics. 
Royden Keith Yerkes, '03, Instructor in Hebrew. 
Frederic Anthony Child, '05, Instructor in English. 
William Page Harbeson, '06, Instructor in English. 
Eugene Stock McCartney, '06, Instructor in Latin. 
John Cooper Mendenhall, '07, Instructor in English. 
Englehardt August Eckhardt, '08, Assistant Professor of Physics. 
Clement Edgar Foust, '09, Instructor in English. 
John Dolman, Jr., '10, Instructor in English. 
David Walter Steckbeck, '11, Instructor in Biology. 
Henry Dexter Learned, '12, Instructor in German. 
Walter H. R. Trumbauer, ' 1 2, Assistant in English. 

Law Department. 

Hampton Lawrence Carson, 71, Lecturer on History of Legal Literature. 
John Stokes Adams, '84, Lecturer on Laws of Mines and Mining. 
David Werner Amram, '87, Professor of Law. 
Crawford Dawes Hening, '87, Professor of Law. 
William Henry Loyd, '90, Assistant Professor of Law. 

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Medical Department. 

*Louis Adolphus Duhring, '65, Emeritus Professor of Dermatology. 
John Price Crozer Griffith, '77, Professor of Pediatrics. 
Herman Bryden Allyn, '82, Associate in Medicine. 
Thompson Sieser Westcott, '82, Associate in Pediatrics. 
Charles Walts Burr, '83, Professor of Mental Diseases. 
William Campbell Posey, '86, Ophthalmologist. 
John Harper Girvin, '89, Associate in Obstetrics. 
Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, '96, Instructor in Surgery. 



'Deceased, 1913. 



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CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 





WILLIAM PEPPER, '62 

Provost of the University 

1881-1894 



CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, '62 

Provost of the University 

1894-1910 



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EDGAR F. SMITH 

Provost of the University 

1910 to date 




JOSIAH HARMAR PENNIMAN, '90 

Vice-Provost of the University 

1910 to date 



FOREWORD 

The following catalogue unfortunately cannot claim to be 
a standard authority in the sense the editors had hoped to make 
it. It can, however, boast a conscientious effort made to give 
it whatever degree of authority it was possible to gain from 
available sources. Innumerable mistakes have been corrected 
by the editors both in their primary and secondary sources, 
although undoubtedly at the same time many errors have been 
committed. 

The abbreviations are self-explanatory. An asterisk before 
a name indicates that the member is deceased. 

The editors have conducted their search for biographical 
material as thoroughly as possible. Not only have urgent letters 
been written to every living alumnus, but every possible source 
of Philomathean history has been examined. The Matriculates 
Catalogue of the University (published 1892) has supplied a 
large part of the information previous to the graduation of the 
Class of 1884. The sources of information for the later classes 
are, however, very scanty, particularly in the case of those who 
failed to answer the circular letters. 

Generally speaking, the dates of births and deaths have 
been carefully preserved, but accomplishments and like items of 
importance seem to have been regarded as unworthy of record. 
As a result some of the records are not as complete as the editors 
could have desired them to be. Such of the five and ten year 
books published by the different classes as were available have 
rendered the editors invaluable assistance. The editors are 
greatly indebted to those Senior members whose voluntary 
communications have supplied in many cases material which 

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otherwise would have been impossible for the editors to obtain. 
Beyond these sources the editors realize with regret how far 
from accurate and complete their work is; and yet they feel 
that their efforts have not been altogether fruitless, faulty 
though the result may be; and they hope that the difficulties 
under which they have labored will receive due consideration. 
The editors desire to thank Dr. Ewing Jordan, '68, for 
his kindness in giving helpful suggestions and in examining 
the proof. 

CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 

CLASS OF 1815 

*JOHN BAYARD, A.M. (1795-1869.) Merchant. 

*GEORGE BUCHANAN, A.M. (1796-1879.) Prothonotary Courts, Center Co., 
Pa. ; Brig.-Gen. 3d brigade, Penna. militia. 

*HENRY BANNING CHEW, A.M. (1800-1866.) Merchant. 

*THOMAS GRAY CONDY, A.M. (1797-1838.) Lawyer; editor of Condy's Maga- 
zine. (N. B. The spelling of this name is adapted from the "Recorder's 
Roll," where he signed himself "Condy," not "Condie.") 

*HENRY SIDNEY COXE, A.M. (1798-1850.) Head of St. Louis branch of the 
U. S. Bank. 

*CHRISTIAN FREDERIC CRUSE, A.M., D.D. (1795-1865.) First moderator of 
Philo; P. E. clergyman; Assistant Prof, at the Univ. of Penna.; Prof. St. 
Paul's College, N. Y.; rector of Trinity Church at Fishkill, N. Y.; trans, 
of Bohn ed. of "Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History." 

*JAMES SPROAT DAVIDSON, A.M. (1796-1821.) Student in theology. 

*WILLIAM MORRISON ENGLES, A.M., D.D. (1797-1867.) Presb. clergyman; 
editor of The Presbyterian-, author of "Sick-room Devotions," "The 
Soldiers' Pocket Book." 

*SAMUEL MARX, A.M. (1796-1860.) Silver medal for scholarship. Mer- 
chant; cashier of Bank of Va. 

*WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, A.M., D.D. (1796-1877.) Second modera- 
tor of Philo; P. E. clergyman; rector of St. James at Lancaster, where he 
founded the first public school in Pa. outside of Phila.; rector of St. Paul's 
Coll., N. Y.; superintendent and chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y.; 
author of various hymns. 

*THOMAS McKEAN PETTIT, A.M. (1797-1853.) Lawyer; City Solicitor of 
Phila.; Deputy Attorney-Gen., Sup. Ct. Pa.; mem. Penna Legis.; Pres. 
Judge, Dist. Ct. Phila.; U. S. Dist. Atty., Eastern Dist. Pa.; Vice-Pres., 
Hist. Soc. of Penna.; Bd. of visitors to West Point under Van Buren; 

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direc. of U. S. Mint at Phila.; assisted Thomas Sergeant to prepare 

"The Common Law Reports of England." 
*EDWARD RAWLE, A.M. (1797-1880.) Lawyer; Assoc. Judge, City Ct., New 

Orleans; one of founders of public school system in New Orleans; Pres. 

first sch. Bd. of 2nd municipality of N. Orleans; one of founders of 2nd 

municipality Pub. Sch. Lyceum and Lit. Soc., N. Orleans; Fellow in N. 

Orleans Acad. Sci. in 1856; Pres. Keystone Ass'n, N. Orleans. 
*HENRY RAWLE. (1799-1816.) 

*JOHN JAMES RICHARDS. ( 1822.) Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM HENRY WEST, A.M. (1797-1853.) Planter in Virginia. 

*GEORGE BACON WOOD, A.M., M.D., LL.D. (1797-1879.) Moderator of Philo; 

valedictorian; physician; Prof, of Chemistry and of Mat. Med., Phila. Coll. 

of Phar.; Prof, in Med. Sch., Univ. of Pa.; Pres. Coll. Phys., Phila.; Pres. 

Amer. Philos. Soc. from 1859 to 1879; mem. Acad. of Nat. Sci., Phila.; 

Pres. Amer. Med. Assn.; trustee of Girard Coll.; trustee of U. of P. from 

1863 to 1879; published various medical works. 



CLASS OF 1816 

* WILLIAM N. ANDERSON. 

*THOMAS LEECH BOILEAU, A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 

*SAMUEL N. DAVIES. 

*JAMES HUNTER EWING, A.M., M.D. Physician. 

*NICHOLAS HAMMOND, JR., A.M., M.D. Moderator; won silver medal for 

scholarship; physician. 
*!SAAC HAYS, A.M., M.D. Physician; Pres. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1865-69; 

mem. Amer. Philos. Soc.; Franklin Institute, Phila.; and numerous 

medical societies; one of the founders of Amer. Med. Assoc.; Fellow of 

Acad. Arts and Sci., Boston; editor of and contributor to medical 

periodicals. 

*JOHN JULIUS KEATING, A.M. Lawyer; member of Penna. Legis. (1823-24). 
*WILLIAM HIPPOLYTE KEATING, A.M. Lawyer; chemist; Prof, of Chemistry, 

Franklin Inst. (1822-28); mem. Amer. Philos. Soc. 
THOMAS MEREDITH, JR., A.M. Baptist clergyman; founder and editor of 

Baptist Interpreter and Bibical Recorder; author of works on Slavery. 
*SAMUEL SIMON SCHMUCKER, A.B., A.M., D.D. Lutheran clergyman; Prof. 

Lutheran Theolog. Seminary (1826-64); Prof. Penna. Coll.; author of 

theological works. 
*!SAAC WILLIS. 

CLASS OF 1817 

*McKEAN BUCHANAN. Merchant; pay director, U. S. N. 

*THOMAS LEAMING CALDWELL, M.D. Physician; surgeon, U. S. Vols., Mexican 

War. 

'NATHANIEL OGDEN CLARK. Student of law. 
*TIMOTHY WARD COE. Moderator. 
*JACOB BAKER COMEGYS. U. S. Agent to Island of Trinidad. 

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*JOHN NESBITT CONYNGHAM, A.M., LL.D. Moderator; lawyer; mem. Penna. 

Legis.; presiding judge, Ct. of Com. Pleas, Luzerne Co., Pa. (1850-71); 

member Amer. Philos. Soc., Hist. Soc. Penna. 
*EDMUND SIDNEY COXE, A.M. Lawyer. 
*WASHINGTON HARRIS. Clergyman. 
*JOHN MATHER JACKSON, A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 
*WILLIAM BRANSON LARDNER. 
*ALEXANDER MAGNUS MURRAY. 
*!SRAEL PEMBERTON PLEASANTS. Stock-broker. 
*GEORGE READ, A.M. Moderator; U. S. Consul to Malaga, Spain. 
*BEN;AMIN RUSH RHEES, M.D. Physician. 
*JACOB LODENYK SHARPE. Merchant. 
*CHARLES A. WALKER. 
*WILLIAM C. WALKER. 
*JOHN WHARTON WEST, A.M. Midshipman, lieutenant, master, U. S. N. 

CLASS OF 1818 

*WILLIAM ASHMEAD, A.M., '21. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor at Charleston, 

S. C. 
*HENRY MICHAEL MASON, A.M., '21 (A.M. Causa Gratia, '21, College of N. J.); 

D.D., '38. Protestant Episcopal clergyman; published translations of 

early theological works. 
*JAMES MURRAY MASON, A.M., '21. Moderator; lawyer; mem. House of 

Delegates, Va., 1826-32; mem. Cong. 1837-39; U. S. Sen. from Va. 

1847-61; Pres. U. S. Senate; commissioner with John Slidell of Confed. 

States to Great Britain and France, 1862. 
*HuGH McMiLLAN, A.M. ,'21 (D.D., '57, Univ. Miami). Presbyterian clergyman; 

Prof. Biblical Literature and Theology in Sem. of Reformed Presbyterian 

Church. 

*THEOPHILUS PARVIN, A.M., '21. Moderator; Presbyterian clergyman; mis- 
sionary and teacher in Buenos Ayres, S. A., 1823-29. 
*JAMES MARTIN STAUGHTON, A.M., '21; M.D., '21 (A.M. Causa Gratia, College 

of N. J., '21). Moderator; physician; Prof . in Columbian College, D. C., 

1821-30; Prof, in Med. College of Ohio, 1830. 
*PETER VAN PELT, JR., A.M., '21 (D.D., '56, St. John's College). Moderator; 

Protestant Episcopal clergyman; rector at Port Royal, S. C., and at 

Church of Epiphany, Phila.; Prof, in Protestant Episcopal Divinity 

School, Phila. 

CLASS OF 1819 

*FRANCIS PORTEUS CORBIN, A.M., '22. Moderator; lawyer. 

*SAMUEL MICKLE Fox, A.M., '44; M.D., '22. Moderator; physician. 

*HENRY FRANKLIN. 

*HENRY DIL WORTH GILPIN, A.M., '22. Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; 
U. S. District Att'y, East. Dist. of Pa., 1831-1835; Attorney-General 
of U. S., 1840-41; Pres. Acad. Fine Arts, Phila.; Vice-Pres. Hist. Soc. of 

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Pa.; trustee Univ. of Pa., 1853-58; mem. Amer. Philos. Soc.; Pub. 

"Gilpin's Reports"; Director Girard Coll., Phila.; appointed by Pres. 

Jackson, Gov. Direc. U. S. Bank, 1833; edited the papers of James 

Madison. 
*WILLIAM SHEAFF HELMUTH, A.M., '22; M.D., '24. Physician; Prof, in 

Hahnemann Med. College; mem. Amer. Philos. Soc. 

"JOHN REYNOLDS KNOX, M.D., '27 (A.B., '22, Yale; A.M., '25, Yale). Physician. 
*FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, A.M., '22; M.D., '23. Physician. 
*GEORGE POTTS, A.M., '22 (D.D., '38, Univ. of N. Y.). Presbyterian clergyman; 

pastor at Natchez, Miss., and at Duane St. Church, N. Y., and Univ. Place 

Church, N. Y. 
*JOHN SELBY PURNELL, A.M., '22. Lawyer; farmer; mem. House of Delegates, 

Md., 1831 and 1838. 
*WILLIAM UNDRILL PURNELL, A.M., '22. Lawyer; merchant; farmer; mem. 

House of Delegates, Md., 1830, 1844-45; State Sen., Md., 1838-39. 
*WILLIAM RUSH, A.M., '22; M.D., '23. Physician. 
*WILLIAM BIDDLE SHEPARD, A.M., '22. Lawyer; mem. Cong., 1827-37. 
THOMAS BLACKBURN TURNER, A.M., '22. Planter. 
*ROBERT JAMES WALKER, A.M., '22. Moderator; Latin salutatorian; lawyer; 

U. S. Senator from Miss., 1836-45; Sec. U. S. Treasury, 1845-49; Gov. 

Kansas Territory, 1857-58; editor Continental Monthly, U. S. Finan. 

Agt., Europe, 1863. 

*JOHN SALTAR WHARTON, A.M., '22. Lawyer. 
*SAMUEL WILSON, A.M., '22; M.D., '23. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1820 

*HENRY PAUL BECK, A.M., '23. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM WHITE CHEW, A.M., '23. Sec. of U. S. Legation to Russia, 1837; 
Charge d'Affaires, 1839-40. 

*SAMUEL S. COCHRAN, A.M., '23. Moderator. 

*JOSEPH MICHAEL DORAN, A.M., '23. Lawyer; City Solicitor, Philadelphia, 
1835; member of Penna. Constitutional Convention, 1837; Judge, Court 
of General Sessions, 1840-43. 

*SAMUEL JONES, M.D., '22. Physician. 

*ALEXANDER NEIL. 

*JOHN NORCOM, A.M., '23 (M.D., '25, Univ. of Md.). Physician; Justice, Court 
of Quarter Sessions, Beaufort, N. C. ; Mayor, Washington, N. C. 

*JOHN RODMAN PAUL, A.M., '23; M.D., '23. Moderator; physician; manu- 
facturer; Fellow College of Physicians, Phila., and its Treasurer, 1839-77; 
member Phila. Medical Society; member American Medical Association; 
member Phila. Common Council, 1844; Pres. Wills Hospital; trustee of 
University of Pennsylvania, 1869-77. 

*WILLIAM ARCHIBALD READ, A.M., '23. Moderator; planter. 

*HENRY AUGUSTUS RILEY, A.M., '23; M.D., '25. Moderator; physician; 
Presbyterian minister; pastor Eighth Ave. Church, N. Y., and at Mont- 
rose, Penna. 

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*THOMAS STEWART, JR., A.M., '23. Lawyer. 

*ROBERT WATSON, A.M., '23. Moderator; lawyer; student of Math, and 

Natural Sciences. 
THOMAS WILLING. Merchant. 

CLASS OF 1821 

*ROBERT McC. BARR, A.M., '24. Lawyer; compiler of Reports Supreme Ct. 
of State of Penna. 

*JOHN CADWALADER, A.M., '24; LL.D., '70. Lawyer; Vice-Provost Law 
Academy, Phila.; Solicitor U. S. Bank, Phila.; member of Congress, 1855- 
57; Judge U. S. District Court E. D. of Penna.; member American 
Philosophical Society. 

*JOSEPH GIBBONS CLARKSON, A.M., '24. Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature, 
1832. 

*PIERCE CONNELLY, A.M., '24. Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic 
clergyman; recanted and was readmitted to Protestant Episcopal Church. 

*WM. DICK, JR. 

*ROBERT WILLIAM GOLDSBOROUGH, A.M., '24. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

*WILLIAM GOLDSBOROUGH, A.M., '24. Lawyer; farmer. 

*WILLIAM HARMAR, A.M., '24. Lawyer. 

*SAMUEL JONES HENDERSON, A.M., '24. Lawyer. 

*ROWLAND PARRY HEYLIN, A.M., '24; M.D. Physician. 

*BENJAMIN HUTCHINS, A.M., '24. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

*JOSEPH SCREVEN INGLESBY, A.M., '24; M.D., '24. Physician; planter. 

*CHARLES BANCKER JAUDON, A.M. and M.D., '24. Moderator; physician. 

*JOHN RIGHTER JONES, A.M., '24. Lawyer; Judge of Court of Common Pleas, 
1836-42; Col. 58th Pa. U. S. V.; published "Quaker Soldier." 

*WILLIAM JONES LEIPER, A.M., '24. Merchant; member First City Troop. 

*CHARLES WILLIAM NASSAU, A.M., '24 (D.D., '50, Jefferson Coll.). Moder- 
ator; Presbyterian clergyman; Professor and President of Lafayette 
College, 1849-50; Principal Female Seminary, Lawrenceville, N. J., 1850-74. 

*!SAAC NORRIS, A.M., '24. Lawyer. 

*PHILIP PELTZ, JR., A.M., '24; M.D., '24. Physician; member Philadelphia 
County Medical Society. 

*JOHN READ, JR., A.M., '24. Moderator; lawyer. 

*DANIEL CHARLES HEATH SIMS, A.M., '24. Lawyer. 

*WADE T. SMITH, A.M., '24. 

*JOHN CHEW THOMAS, JR., A.M., '24; M.D., '24. Physician. 

*SAMUEL THOMAS, A.M., '24; M.D., '25. Physician. 

*JOHN WILTBANK, A.M., '24; M.D., '25. Physician; Professor Penna. Medical 
College; Fellow of College of Physicians, Phila.; American Medical 
Association; Philadelphia County Medical Society. 

CLASS OF 1822 

*CHARLES SIDNEY BRADFORD, A.M., '25. Latin salutatorian; lawyer. 
*GEORGE BRINTON, A.M., '25. Moderator. 

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*JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. 

*JOSEPH ASHMEAD CLAY, A.M., '25. Lawyer; member Academy Natural 
Sciences, Philadelphia. 

*WILLIAM DOBSON GALLAHER, A.M., '25; M.D., '25. Physician. 

*CHARLES INGERSOLL, A.M., '25. Lawyer; author of "Fears for Democracy." 

*RALPH FARLEY IZARD, A.M., '25. Moderator; lawyer. 

*JONAS ALTAMONT PHILLIPS, A.M., '25. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM RICHARDSON PRICE, A.M., '25. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM BRADFORD REED, A.M., '25; LL.D., '60 (Harvard). Lawyer; Vice- 
Provost of Law Academy of Philadelphia, 1840-41; member Penna. 
Legislature, 1834-35; Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, 1838; State Sen., 
Pa., 1841; U. S. Min. to China, 1857-1858; Professor in University of 
Pennsylvania, 1850; member Ameiican Philosophical Society; author of 
"Life and Correspondence of Pres. Jos. Reed"; editor of posthumous 
works of Prof. Henry Reed. 

*WILLIAM JAMES REESE, A.M., '25. Moderator; lawyer; General of State 
Militia of Ohio. 

*JOHN STILLE, JR., A.M., '25. Lawyer. 

*RICHARD HENRY THOMAS, A.M., '25; M.D., '27. Salutatorian; physician; 
Prof. Md. Medical University; contributor to medical press. 

*ROBERT J. THOMPSON, A.M., '25. Moderator. 

*THOMAS WHARTON, A.M., '25; M.D., '26. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1823 

*CHARLES FREDERICK BECK, A.M., '26; M.D., '27. Physician; member 

American Philosophical Society. 
*GUSTAVUS SMITH BENSON, A.M., '26. Moderator; English salutatorian; 

banker; lawyer; member Board of City Trusts. 
*GEORGE CADWALADER, A.M., '26. Lawyer; Brigadier-General U. S. V., 

1847; in Mexican War and promoted for gallantry; Major-Gen., U. S. V., 

1862. Mem. Mil. Order Loyal Legion U. S. 

*JAMES ANTHONY DONATH, A.M., '26. Lawyer; member Franklin Institute. 
*JAMES READ ECKARD, A.M., '26 (D.D., '58, Lafayette). Lawyer; Presbyterian 

clergyman; missionary to Ceylon and South Hindustan ; Principal Chatham 

Academy, Savannah, Ga. ; pastor at Washington; Professor at Lafayette 

College; writer of missionary works. 
*JAMES CLAYTON GALLAHER, A.M., '26. Merchant; Diplomatic Corps; U. S. 

Consul, Ponce. 
*JOHN HALL, A.M., '26 (D.D., '50, College of N. J.). Moderator; lawyer; 

Presbyterian clergyman; pastor at Trenton, N. J.; member Historical 

Society of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin; published various 

theological works; Trans, from Latin Milton's letters. 
*ALEXANDER HEBERTON, A.M., '26. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor at Allen 

twp., Pa., and elsewhere. 

*THOMAS LEIPER JANEWAY, A.M., '26 (D.D., '50, College of N. J.). Valedic- 
torian; Presbyterian clergyman; pastor at Rah way, N. J. 

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*AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN LOCHMAN, A.M., '26 (D.D., '56, Penna. College). Luth- 
eran clergyman and pastor at Mechanicsburg, Pa., Harrisburg and York, 
Pa.; trustee at Penna. College and Franklin College. 

*JOHN MORRIS MARSHALL, A.M., '26. Chemist. 

*JOHN MEASE (BUTLER), A.M., '26. Captain, U. S. Army. 

THOMAS MEASE. 

*ELI MEEKER, A.M., '26. Congregationalist and Presbyterian clergyman. 

*SAMUEL OGDEN MEREDITH, A.M., '26. Moderator; lawyer. 

*CHARLES HENRY MIFFLIN, A.M., '26; M.D., '26. Physician. 

*ANTHONY SAUNDERS MORRIS, A.M., '26. Chief Burgess, Pemberton, N. J. 

*PERSIFOR FRAZER SMITH, A.M., '26. Lawyer; District Attorney, Delaware 
County; member of Pennsylvania Legislature. 

*GEORGE MIFFLIN WHARTON, A.M., '26. Moderator; salutatorian; lawyer; 
Vice-Provost Law Academy of Philadelphia; President Select Council, 
Philadelphia, 1856-59; U. S. Dist. Atty., E. D., Pa., 1857-60; member 
American Philosophical Society. 

*WILLIAM SHEAFF ZANTZINGER, A.M., '26; M.D., '28. Physician; Fell. Coll. 
of Physicians. 

CLASS OF 1824 

*LEWIS RICHARD ASHHURST, A.M., '27. Merchant. 

*USELMA AUGUSTUS CLARKE, A.M., '27; M.D., '28. Physician. 

*SAMUEL GERARDUS CLARKSON, A.M., '27; M.D., '26. Moderator; English 
salutatorian; Asst. Surgeon U. S. N. 

*ROBERT PATTERSON DuBois, A.M., '27 (D.D., '60, Lafayette). Moderator; 
Presbyterian clergyman. 

*JOSEPH DICKINSON Fox. Moderator; Latin salutatorian. 

*THOMAS WILLIAM GILPIN, A.M., '27. Merchant; Diplomatic Corps. 

*GEORGE HALBERSTADT, M.D., '29. Physician. 

*ALEXANDER WELCOCKS INGERSOLL, A.M., '27. 

*GEORGE JACOB JANEWAY, A.M., '27; M.D., '30. Physician; member Phila. 
Medical Society; Mayor of New Brunswick. 

*EDWARD DONALD KEMP, A.M., '27. Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; 
Chief Judge Orphans' Court, Baltimore. 

*HENRY HELMUTH KREBS (A.B., '24; A.M., '27, College of N. J.). 

*ANTHONY CUTHBERT PERCIVAL, A.M., '27; M.D., '27. Physician. 

*HENRY PETTIT, A.M., '27; M.D., '29. Physician. 

*THOMAS BARTOW SARGENT (D.D., Dickinson). Methodist Episcopal clergy- 
man. 

*HENRY RALSTON, A.M., '27. Lawyer. 

*JAMES CORNELIUS WILTBANK. 

CLASS OF 1825 

*ADOLPHE EDWARD BORIE, A.M., '28. English salutatorian; merchant; trustee 
of University of Penna., 1858-80; Sec. U. S. N., 1869. 

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*VINCENT LOOCKERMAN BRADFORD, A.M., '28 (LL.D., '74; D.C.L., '80, Wash, 
and Lee). Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; Pres. United R. R. Com- 
panies of N. J.; State Sen., Mich. 

*ANTHONY BANNING CHEW, A.M., '28. 

THOMAS FITZGERALD DALE, A.M., '28; M.D., '29. Physician. 

*WILLIAM DUANE. Lawyer; member Historical Society Penna. 

*GEORGE Fox, JR., A.M., '28; M.D., '28. Moderator; physician; mem- 
ber Philadelphia Medical Society and vice-president (1849); member 
Academy Natural Sciences; member American Medical Association; 
member Medical Society of State of Penna. ; contributor to medical periodi- 
cals. 

THOMAS DOBSON GALLAHER, A.M., '28. Merchant. 

*JAMES GOODMAN, A.M., '28. Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature. 

*DAVID CROW HARKER. Druggist. 

*THOMAS HARPER, JR. Moderator. 

*HENRY HAYS, A.M., '28. Merchant. 

*RICHARD MARIS, A.M., '28; M.D., '29. Physician. 

*HENRY (HOPE) REED, A.M., '28; LL.D., '46 (University of Vermont). Modera- 
tor; Latin salutatorian; Prof, at University of Penna.; Vice-Provost; 
member American Philosophical Society; author of works on English 
literature. 

*WILLIAM HENRY REES, A.M., '44 (Gratia Causa) (D.D., '60, F. & M.). Prot- 
estant Episcopal clergyman; rector at Old St. David's Church at 
Radnor, Pa. 

*LEVIS PRESTON THOMSON, M.D. ('27, Jeff. Med. Coll.). Physician. 

*COBURN WHITEHEAD, A.M., '28 (A.B., '28, Yale); M.D., '31. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1826 

"JOSEPH ABBOTT, JR. (A.B., '27; A.M., '30; D.D., '60, Union College). Moder- 
ator; clergyman. 

*JOHN ASHHURST. Moderator; director of Phila. & Reading Ry.; Director 
of Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank; trustee of University of Penna., 1865-88. 

*EDWARD MACFUNN BIDDLE (A.B., '27; A.M., '30, College of N. J.). Lawyer; 
ironmaster; Sec. and Treas. Cumberland Valley R. R.; Major General 
15th Div. N. G. P. 

*THOMAS LATIMER BOWIE, A.M., '29. Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer. 

*JOSEPH CARSON, A.M., '29; M.D., '30. Moderator; physician; Prof. Medical 
School, University of Penna.; Fellow, College of Phys., Phila.; member 
and curator American Philosophical Society; Vice-Pres. Academy Natural 
Sciences; member American Medical Association. 

*ROBERT BALDWIN DAVIDSON, A.M., '29. Moderator; stock broker. 

*FREDERICK SIMEON ECKARD, M.D., '35. Lawyer; physician; poet. 

*!SAAC HAZLEHURST (A.B., '28; A.M., '31, Trinity). Lawyer; Vice-Provost 
Law Academy of Phila.; City Solicitor, 1854-56. 

*JOHN JORDAN, JR. Ironmaster; merchant; bank president and antiquary; 
Vice-Pres. of Historical Society of Penna. 

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*HENRY PRATT McKEAN. Merchant. 

*THOMAS McKiNLEY, A.M., '29. Tutor and student of theology. 

*THOMAS Ross NEWBOLD, A.M., '29. Lawyer; stock broker; editor of The 

North American. 
*FRANCIS WEST, M.D., '32 (A.B., '27; A.M., '30, Dickinson). Physician; 

Fellow, College of Phys., Phila.; member American Medical Association; 

contributor to medical journals. 

CLASS OF 1827 

*FREDERICK WILLIAMSON BEASLEY, A.M., '30; D.D., '68. Moderator; 
Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

*THOMAS CADWALADER, A.M., '30. Moderator. 

*SAMUEL FISHER DuBois, A.M., '30. Artist. 

*JOHN GLENDOWER EVANS. 

*ROWLAND EDANUS EVANS, A.M., '30. Lawyer. 

*JOSEPH COLEMAN FISHER, A.M., '30. Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature. 

*WILLIAM TILGHMAN GoLDSBOROUGH, A.M., '30. Moderator; lawyer; member 
Maryland Legislature; member Const. Conv. of Md., 1867. 

*EDWARD HALLOWELL, JR., A.M., '30; M.D., '30. Moderator; Latin saluta- 
torian; physician; member Phila. Medical Society; member Academy 
Natural Sciences; member American Medical Association. 

*HENRY HELMUTH. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK HuFFNAGLE, A.M., '30. Civil engineer; aide-de-camp 
to Gov. Porter of Penna. 

*WILLIAM KEITH, A.M., '30; M.D., '30. Valedictorian; physician. 

*WILLIAM HENRY KLAPP, A.M. and M.D., '30. Physician; member American 
Medical Association. 

*GEORGE WASHINGTON MORRIS, A.M., '30; M.D., '30. Moderator; physi- 
cian; Prof. Medical School of University of Penna.; member Socie'te' 
Me"dicale d'Observation; Fellow College of Physicians and Vice-Pres., 
1864-75; Vice-Pres. Phila. Medical Society, 1859; Medical Society of State 
of Penna.; Vice-Pres. American Medical Association, 1850-51; Vice-Pres. 
Hist. Soc. of Pa.; member Academy Natural Sciences; member of Ameri- 
can Philosophical Society; trustee of University of Penna., 1855-56; con- 
tributor to surgical periodicals. 

*BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PHILLIPS, A.M., '30. 

*CHARLES FREDERICK SCHAEFFER, A.M., '30 (D.D., '50, Penna. College). Eng- 
lish salutatorian; Lutheran clergyman; Prof, at Capitol University, 
Columbus, Ohio; Prof, at Penna. College, 1855-64; translator of various 
theological works, chiefly from German. 

CLASS OF 1828 
*JOHN NOSTRAND BRiNCKERHOFF, A.M., '31. Principal Union Hall Academy, 

Jamaica, L. I. 
*HORACE EVANS, A.M., '31; M.D., '31. Physician; member Phila. County 

Medical Society; member Historical Society of Penna.; member Penna. 

Horticultural Society. 

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*JOHN EVANS, A.M., '31. Student of law. 

*JOHN JACOB HARTMANN, A.M., '31. Merchant and planter in West Indies; 
U. S. Diplomatic Corps; Mem. Bd. Pub. Ed., Phila., 1869-1872. 

*EMANUEL HELFFENSTEIN, A.M., '31. Lawyer. 

*CHARLES PRYOR MASSEY. Merchant; member First City Troop. 

*EDWARD MILLER, A.M., '31. Moderator; Math. Honor Man; civil engineer; 
Pres. Harrisburg and Lancaster R. R.; assoc. engineer W. Div. Pa. Cen. 
R. R. and its Pres.; chief eng. Pacific R. R. of Missouri; member Philo- 
sophical Society; essays in geology. 

*GEORGE SHARSWOOD, A.M., '31 (LL.D., N. Y. U., '56, and Columbia, '56). 
Moderator; Latin salutatorian ; lawyer; member Penna. Legislature; 
Pres. Judge District Court of Phila.; Chief Justice of Supreme Court 
of Penna., 1878-83; trustee of University of Penna., 1872-83; Provost 
of Law Academy of Phila., 1855-83; Pres. of Alumni Society; member 
American Philosophical Society; published " Professional Ethics," "Lectures 
on Common Law," " Blackstone's Commentaries." 

*GEORGE ROBERTS SMITH, A.M., '31. Moderator; salutatorian; lawyer. 

*THOMAS LEAMING SMITH, A.M., '31. Moderator; lawyer. 

*THOMAS MACKIE SMITH, A.M., '31; M.D., '31. Valedictorian; physician. 

*BENJAMIN M. THOMAS, A.M., '31. Lawyer. 

*JAMES CLARK WORKMAN, M.D., '30. Physician; Surg., C. S. Army. 

CLASS OF 1829 

*CLEMENT BIDDLE, A.M., '32. Lawyer. 

*JAMES CURTIS BOOTH, A.M., '32; LL.D., '67 (Univ. of Lewisburg, now Buck- 
nell; Ph.D., Renssaeler Poly. Inst, 1884). Chemist; Prof. Chemistry 
Franklin Institute, 1836-45; Prof, at Phila. Central High School, 1843-45; 
Prof, at University of Penna. 1851-55; member American Philosophical 
Society; member Academy Natural Sciences; member Penna. Horticultural 
Society; member Historical Society of Penna.; Pres. American Chem. 
Society, 1883-84; published works on geology and chemistry. 

*JOHN BIDDLE CHAPMAN, A.M., '32. Moderator; lawyer. 

*EDWARD ALEXANDER NASSAU, A.M. and M.D., '32. Latin salutatorian; 
physician. 

*CHARLES THEODORE POTTS, A.M., '32. Moderator; lawyer. 

*JOHN ROBERTSON, A.M., '32. Moderator; student of law. 

*JOSEPH WHARTON, A.M., '32. Moderator; valedictorian; merchant. 

*WILLIAM WHITE, JR., A.M., '32. Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature. 

CLASS OF 1830 

*WILLIAM DEAL BAKER, A.M., '33. Moderator; lawyer; member of Const. 

Conv. of Penna., 1873. 
*JAMES CLARK, A.M., '33. Greek salutatorian; Presbyterian clergyman; 

President of Washington College, 1850-52. 
*JOHN FRIES FRAZER, A.M., '33 (Ph.D., '54, Univ. Lewisburg, now Bucknell; 

LL.D., Harvard, '57). Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; geologist; Prof. 

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at Central High School; Prof, of Natural Science, University of Penna.; 

Vice-Provost of University of Penna., 1855-68; member Franklin Institute; 

Vice-Pres. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1855-1858; member Union League; author 

of works on natural sciences. 
*JOSEPH EASTBURN HARNED, M.D. (elsewhere). Physician, surgeon U. S. V., 

1864-65. 
*WILLIAM POYNTELL JOHNSTON, A.M., '33; M.D., '36. Moderator; physician; 

Fellow College of Physicians. 

*HORN RILEY KNEASS, A.M., '33. Lawyer; Dist. Attorney of Phila. County. 
*THEOPHILUS ADAM WYLIE, A.M., '33, LL.D. '61 (D.D., '61, College of N. J.; 

D.D., '61, Monmouth College; D.D., '61, Miami University). <. B. K.; 

Latin orator; Presbyterian clergyman; Prof. Indiana University; Prof. 

at Miami University. 
*HENRY ZANTZINGER. Lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1831 

'SOLOMON P. ALLEN, JR. (A.B., '31, Union College; A.M., '34, Union). 

*THOMAS ARMSTRONG, JR., A.M., '34. Lawyer. 

*COLIN ARROTT, A.M. and M.D., '34. Physician; surgeon U. S. V. 

*GEORGE AUGUSTUS BICKNELL, JR., A.M., '34 (LL.D., Indiana University, '64). 

Lawyer; Prof, of Law Indiana University; member of Congress; Judge 

Supreme Court of Indiana; Judge of 2d and 52d Jud. Circuits; author of 

various law works. 
*CONRAD RICHARDS BOYER, A.M. and M.D., '34. One of founders of Zelo; 

physician. 
*WILLIAM GEORGE CALDCLEUGH, A.M., '34. Moderator; lawyer; published 

metrical translation of Homer's "Iliad." 
*ROBERT CALDCLEUGH, M.D., '32. Physician. 
*EDMUND CADWALADER EVANS, A.M., '34; M.D., '35. Physician; member 

American Philosophical Society. 
*JOHN WYLIE FAIRES, A.M., '34; D.D., '61. *. B. K.; Greek salutatorian; 

Presbyterian clergyman; Principal Classical Academy of Phila.; Vice- 
Pres. College Alumni Soc. 
*CHARLES HENRY FISHER (A.B., '32, College of N. J.; A.M., '35, College of 

N. J.). 
*JOHN PRINGLE JONES (A.B., College of N. J.; LL.D., F. & M., '60). Moderator; 

lawyer; President Judge Berks County, Pa.; published two volumes 

Penna. State reports. 
*BENJAMIN BRANNAN McKiNLEY, A.M., '34. Instructor at Deaf and Dumb 

Institute, Phila. 

*ROBERT MCMILLAN, A.M., '34; M.D., '37. Physician. 
*MORRIS OGDEN MEREDITH. Merchant; Captain, N. J. U. S. V., 1862. 
*HENRY WARREN RICHARDSON, A.M. and M.D., '34. Moderator; physician; 

planter. 

*THEODORE THOMSON. Merchant; member of First City Troop. 
*EDWARD A. WATSON, A.M., '34. Lawyer. 
*JOHN V. WILSON, A.M., '34. 

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CLASS OF 1832 

*WILLIAM NEWBOLD BISPHAM, A.M., '35. Dentist. 

*JOHN CHARLES CARPENTIER. Moderator; merchant. 

*GEORGE CORREY CARSON, A.M., '35. Moderator; merchant; member of First 

City Troop of Philadelphia. 

'ALEXANDER MURRAY MC!LVAINE, A.M., '35. Moderator; merchant. 
"JOHN RINGGOLD WILMER, A.M., '35. Merchant. 
*ANDREW GIFFORD WYLIE, A.M., '35. Presbyterian clergyman. 

CLASS OF 1833 

*ROBERT CASE CLARK, A.M., '36. Druggist. 

*WILLIAM ELBERT EVANS, A.M., '36. 

*WARWICK BAMFYLDE FREEMAN, A.M., '36. Lawyer. 

'KINGSTON GODDARD, A.M., '36 (D.D., '60, Kenyon College). Moderator; 
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; member American Philosophical Society. 

*JOHN WOLFGANG HOFFMAN, A.M., '36. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

*FURMAN LEAMING, M.D., '37. Physician; farmer; contributor to medical 
journals. 

*HENRY LUDLAM. Merchant. 

"JOHN McKiNLEY, A.M., '36. Moderator; Presbyterian clergyman. 

*WILLIAM McMuRTRiE. Merchant. 

*CHARLES EMLEN PLEASANTS, A.M., '36 (Ph. G., '29, Phila. CoUege of Phar- 
macy). School teacher; Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

*FRANKLIN PERRY POPE. Medical student; planter. 

*AUBREY HENRY SMITH, A.M., '36. Lawyer; U. S. District Attorney Eastern 
District of Penna.; Vice-Pres. of Historical Society of Penna.; member 
Academy Natural Sciences, Phila.; member American Philosophical 
Society. 

*SAMUEL LISLE SMITH, A.M., '36. Lawyer; District Attorney, Chicago, 111. 

*WILLIAM WIKOFF SMITH, A.M., '36. Moderator; chemist; wholesale druggist. 

CLASS OF 1834 

*FRANKLIN BACON. Merchant. 

*EVERT JOHN BANCKER, A.M., '37. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM DAVIES BERRIEN. Lieutenant U. S. A. 

*HENRY JONATHAN BIDDLE, A.M., '37. U. S. Military Academy; civil engineer; 
Captain U. S. V., 1862. 

*WILLIAM RICHARDS BOYER. 

*JAMES THOMAS CALDCLEUGH. Farmer. 

THOMAS (JEFFERSON) DURANT. Lawyer; District Attorney, New Orleans, La.; 
U. S. Com. Span. Claims Com. 

*JOHN INNES CLARK HARE, A.M., '37; LL.D., '68. *. B. K.; Moderator; 
lawyer; Vice-Provost and Provost of Law Academy of Philadelphia; 
Judge of District Court of Philadelphia, 1851-67; President Judge, 1867- 
74; President Judge of Court of Common Pleas No. 2, 1875; member 
American Philosophical Society; trustee of University of Penna., 1858-68. 

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*JOHN HOLMES, A.M., '37. Merchant. 

*SAMUEL HUMES. Student of medicine at time of his death. 

*WILLIAM STODDARD JOHNSTON (A.B., '34, Yale). 

*JOSEPH FALKINBURGE LEAMING (A.B., '24, College of N. J.). Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM NORMAN McLEOD, A.M., '37. Moderator; member Michigan Legis- 
lature. 

*JOHN Moss, A.M., '37. Farmer. 

*JOHN BROWN PARKER, A.M., '37; LL.B., '39 (Dickinson). Moderator; 
lawyer; member Historical Society of Penna. 

*HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH SMITH, A.M., '37; M.D., '37 (LL.D., '85, Lafayette). 
Physician; Prof, at University of Penna. Medical School; Fellow of College 
of Physicians, Phila.; Pres. Phila. County Medical Society, 1877-79; 
Pres. of Medical Society of Pa., 1883; member American Medical Associa- 
tion; Surgeon-General State of Pa., 1861-62; author of works on surgery 
and contributor to medical journals. 

CLASS OF 1835 

*GEORGE ASHBRIDGE, A.M., '38. 

*ROBERT YOUNG BLACK, A.M., '38. Moderator; lawyer. 

*CHARLES BRECK, A.M., '38 (D.D., '69, Columbia). Protestant Episcopal 

clergyman. 

*HENRY CADWALADER. Midshipman U. S. N. 
*COLLIN CAMPBELL COOPER, A.M., M.D., '38. Lawyer; physician; director of 

Public Schools, Phila., 1848-58. 
*EDWARD INGERSOLL, A.M., '38. Moderator; lawyer; author and editor of 

various works on law. 

*FRANCIS JOHNSTON (A.B., Yale, '35; LL.B., Harvard, '39). Lawyer. 
*ALEXANDER McKiNLEY, A.M., '38. Moderator; lawyer; President of Law 

Academy of Phila. 

*JOHN COWELL MITCHELL. Lawyer. 
*JOHN (T.) MONTGOMERY. Civil engineer; lawyer. 

*DAVID JAMESON PATTERSON, A.M., '38. *. B. K.; Presbyterian clergyman. 
'FREDERICK SECKEL PEPPER. 
*JOHN SEIP. Planter. 
*RICHARD RUNDLE SMITH, A.M., '38. Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature; 

President of Union Canal Co. ; member N. G. P. 
*GEORGE LEIPER TAYLOR, A.M., '38; M.D., '38. Moderator; physician. 



CLASS OF 1836 

*WILLIAM BECK GODDARD. Merchant. 
*JOHN HAZLEHURST. Planter. 
*JOHN COOPER INGLIS. Sea captain. 
*JOSEPH HAMPTON INGLIS. Clerk. 

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CLASS OF 1837 

*JOHN BOHLEN, JR., A.M., '40. Lawyer. 

*CHARLES Louis BORIE, A.M., '40. Banker and broker. 

*ARTHUR ARMSTRONG BURT. Merchant. 

THEODORE AUGUSTUS IRVINE. 

*WILLIAM ROBERT MACADAM, A.M., '40; LL.B., '52. Principal of Academic 

Department (U. of P.); lawyer; Adjutant U. S. V., 1861-62. 
*THOMAS PLEASANTS McCREA, M.D., '50. Physician; member Board of 

Health, Phila.; surgeon U. S. V. 
*JOHN PHILIPS MONTGOMERY, A.M., '40. Moderator; Greek salutatorian; 

lawyer. 
*AUSTIN (ADAMS) PHELPS, A.M., '40 (D.D., Amherst, '56). Moderator; 

Congregational clergyman; Prof, at Andover Theological Seminary; 

chaplain Mass. House of Representatives and Senate; Pres. of Andover 

Theological Seminary; author of works on homiletics. 
* WILLIAM POYNTELL, JR. (LL.B., Harvard, '42). Lawyer. 
*WILLIAM HOLME VAN BUREN, M.D., '40 (A.B., Yale, '64; A.M., Yale, '64; 

LL.D., Yale, '79). Surgeon; Prof, at N. Y. U. Medical College; Prof. 

at Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Vice-Pres. N. Y. Academy of Medi- 
cine; asst. surgeon U. S. A.; one of founders U. S. Sanitary Commission; 

author of various medical works. 
"JAMES CORRY WORRELL, A.M., '40. Merchant; stock broker. 

CLASS OF 1838 

*ALEXANDER (WILLIAMS) BIDDLE, A.M., '41. <. B. K.; Moderator; Latin 
salutatorian; Manager of Penna. Hospital; member American Philo- 
sophical Society; member Academy Natural Sciences, Phila.; Colonel 
121st Penna. U. S. V., 1862-64. 

*JAMES LLOYD BRECK, A.M., '41; D.D., '60. Protestant Episcopal clergyman; 
founder and President of Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin; 
founder and President Seabury University, Minn. ; founder St. Augustine's 
College, Cal. 

*WILLIAM CADWALADER. 

*GEORGE COLHOUN. Merchant; planter. 

*SAMUEL Fox FISHER, A.M., '41. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM GIBSON. 

*WILLIAM JOHN GRAYSON. Lawyer; planter. 

*FRANKLIN HEWSON, A.M., '41. Engineer; visitor U. S. Military Academy, 
West Point. 

*JOHN LAMBERT, JR., A.M., '41. Lawyer; member Academy Natural Sciences; 

member Historical Society of Penna. 
LAWRENCE LEWIS. (Oldest living member.) 

*GEORGE EMLEN SCOTT. Merchant. 

*LEWIS ALLAIRE SCOTT, A.M., '41. Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; member 
Historical Society of Penna.; member American Philosophic Society; 
member American Historical Association. 

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"LAWRENCE SECKEL PEPPER, M.D., '43. Physician. 

*JOHN GELSTON SMITH, A.M., '41. Moderator. 

*EDWARD TWELLS. 

*FRANCIS WHARTON (A.B., '39; A.M., '56, Yale; D.D., '66, Kenyon; LL.D., 
Univ. of Edinburgh, '83). Lawyer; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; 
Prof, at Protestant Episcopal Seminary, Cambridge, Mass.; lecturer on 
international law, Harvard; solicitor, State Department, Washington, 
D. C.; member Ins. International Law; published works on theology; 
published large number of standard works on law, evidence, contract, etc. 

CLASS OF 1839 

JONATHAN WILLIAMS BIDDLE, A.M., '42. Moderator; Greek salutatorian; 
lawyer. 

*TORBEN BILLE, A.M., '42. Diplomat; Danish Legation at London; Danish 
Legation at Washington; Danish Minister to Belgium; Danish Minister 
to Great Britain. 

*JOHN DELAVAN BRYANT, A.M., '42; M.D., '48. Moderator; physician; poet; 
published work on demonology. 

*SAMUEL MANUEL DAVIS, A.M., '42. Lawyer. 

*JOHN VIGORS EUSTACE, A.M., '42. Lawyer; member Illinois Legislature 
1856; Circuit Judge 13th Judicial District, 1857-59; Captain U. S. V. 

*CADWALADER EVANS, JR., A.M., '42. 

*MANLIUS GLENDOWER EVANS, A.M., '42. Lawyer. 

"NICHOLAS COLLIN HUGHES, A.M., '42; (D.D., '83, Univ. of N. C.). Protestant 
Episcopal clergyman; published theological works. 

"SAMUEL HUSTON. Brewer; banker; Pres. Midvale Steel Works; member 
Academy Natural Sciences. 

"EDWARD CONWAY JONES, A.M., '42. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

"CHARLES KUHN, JR., A.M., '42. Lawyer. 

"HENRY EGLINTON MONTGOMERY, A.M., '42; D.D., '63. Moderator; vale- 
dictorian; U. S. Diplomatic Corps; Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

"ISAAC WALKER MOORE, A.M., '42. Member Penna. Legislature, 1854-55. 

"THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN Moss, Ph.D. (Freiberg, Saxony). Mining engi- 
neer; geologist. 

"GEORGE WASHINGTON RICHARDS, A.M., '42. Lawyer. 

"EMANUEL AUGUSTUS THOURON, A.M., '42. Merchant. 

"EDWARD COXE WATMOUGH, A.M., '42. Lawyer. 

"BENJAMIN CHEW WILCOCKS. 

CLASS OF 1840 

"WILLIAM M. BELL. 

"HENRY BONSALL. Conveyancer. 

"HENRY WILLIAM DUCACHET, JR., A.M., '43 (M.D., '43, Jefferson Medical 

College; Moderator; Surgeon U. S. V. 
"THOMAS SCOTT HARPER, A.M. and M.D., '43. Moderator; physician. 

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*EDWIN HARWOOD, A.M., '43 (D.D., '62, Trinity). $. B. K.; Protestant Episco- 
pal clergyman; Prof. Berkeley Divinity School; Archaeologist; author of 
works on theology and homiletics. 

*HENRY HUNTINGTON. Planter. 

"CHARLES HUSTON, A.M., '43 (M.D., '42, Jefferson Medical College). Physician; 
ironmaster. 

*STEVENSON MURGATROYD LEAMING, A.M., '43. 

*JOHN LONG. Teacher; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; chaplain U. S. A., 
1861-67. 

*HENRY VINCENT MEIGS, A.M., '43. Greek salutatorian; lawyer; private 
Confederate Army. 

*BENJAMIN STERLING (A.B., '40, College of N. J.). 

"WILLIAM BOWER TAYLOR, A. M., '43. Moderator; lawyer; examiner 
U. S. Patent Office; member of American Philosophical Society; author of 
works on physics and geology. 

CLASS OF 1841 

*SAMUEL KEEN ASHTON, A.M., '44; M.D., '43. Moderator; physician; 
member Phila. County Medical Society; member Medical Society of Penna. 

*PAUL JULIAN BECK. 

*HENRY PETER BORIE. Banker and broker. 

"FREDERICK CARROLL BREWSTER, A.M., '44; LL.D., '70. Lawyer; President 
of the Law Academy, 1845; City Solicitor of Phila.; Judge of Court of 
Common Pleas, Phila., 1866-69; Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, 
1869-72; member Historical Society of Penna.; Pres. College Alumni 
Society; published "Digest Penna. Reports"; author of "Life of Disraeli;" 
author of "Life of Moliere;" addresses and reviews. 

*JAMES BURK, JR. 

*JOHN AGNEW CRAWFORD, A.M., '44; D.D., '75. *. B. K.; Presbyterian clergy- 
man; Chaplain, U. S. A.; author of works on ethics and theology. 

*HENRY AUGUSTUS DE FRANCE, A.M., '44. Journalist. 

*RICHARD BACHE DUANE, A.M., '44 (D.D., '69, Kenyon). Merchant; Protestant 
Episcopal clergyman. 

*GABRIEL BERTRAND DU VAL, A.M., '44. Lawyer; editor of Montgomery 
Advertiser; Captain in Confederate Army. 

*JAMES RENEE FORD, A.M., '44. Moderator; lawyer. 

*SAMUEL MICKLE Fox, A.M., '44. Lawyer. 

"ROBERT PATTERSON HARRIS, A.M., '44; M.D., '44. Physician; Fellow College 
of Physicians, Phila.; member Pathological Society; American Philo- 
sophical Society; American Medical Association; corr. member of Medico- 
Chi. Society of Naples; contributor medical journals. 

"EDWIN HEWSON, A.M., '44. Merchant. 

"SETH CRAIGE HOLMES. Merchant. 

"HORATIO GATES JONES, A.M., '44; (D. C. L., Judson Univ., Ark.; A.M., 
gratice causa, Brown Univ., '63). Lawyer; member Penna. Legislature, 
1874-82; director of Girard College, Phila.; Vice-Pres. Historical Society 

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of Penna., 1867-93; Hon. Fellow Royal Historical Society of Great Britain; 
Lieut. Home Guards Penna. N. G. ; published works. 

*WILLIAM ECKART LEHMAN, A.M., '44. Lawyer; member Congress, 1861-63; 
Captain U. S. V. 

*JOHN HILL BRINTON MCCLELLAN, A.M., '44; M.D., '44. Physician; Prof, 
at Penna. Medical College; mem. Academy Natural Sciences; member 
Phila. County Medical Society; American Medical Association; Act'g 
Asst. Surgeon U. S. A.; editor of work on "Surgery." 

*WILLIAM DUNCAN McLEOD, A.M., '44. Bank clerk. 

*HENRY STAFFORD OSBORN, A.M., '44 (LL.D., '65, Lafayette). Presbyterian 
clergyman; geologist; Prof, at Lafayette College; Prot. Miami University, 
Ohio; member American Philosophical Society; member Victoria Philo- 
sophical Society at London ; member Historical Society of Penna. ; author 
of works of geology and mining. 

*WILLIAM HENRY RAWLE, A.M., '44; LL.D., '82. Lawyer; Vice-Provost 
Law Academy, 1865-73; member American Philosophical Society; member 
Historical Society of Penna.; director of Library Co. of Phila.; Quarter- 
master Sergeant U. S. V.; published law works. 

*BENJAMIN BRANNAN REATH, A.M., '44. Greek salutatorian ; lawyer. 

*JOHN SERGEANT, JR. (A.B. Coll. N. J., '41). Lawyer; U. S. Diplomatic Corps. 

*JOHN COOK SHERBORNE. Merchant. 

*JOHN SOMERS SMITH. Lawyer; Sec. and Treas. Hand-in-Hand Ins. Co. for 
many years. 

*MORETON STILLE, A.M. and M.D., '44. Moderator; physician; Fellow 
of College of Physicians; member Phila. County Medical Society; 
member American Medical Association; publisher various medical works. 

*ALFRED BOWER TAYLOR, A.M., '44 (Ph.G., '44, Phila. College Pharmacy; 

Ph.M., '88). Pharmacist; contributor to pharmaceutical literature. 
JAMES HORATIO WATMOUGH. Paymaster General U. S. N.; Mem. Soc. War 
of 1812. 

*SILAS EBENEZER WEIR. 

*EDWARD SHIPPEN WILLING, A.M., '44. <t>. B. K. 

CLASS OF 1842 

"JOHN BERNARD CHAPRON, A.M. Lawyer. 

*THOMAS FRANKLIN COOPER, A.M. Merchant. 

*EDWARD CRONIN, JR., A.M. (M.D., Jefferson Medical College). Physician; 

practised in Sacramento, Cal., and Platteville, Wis. 
*FRANKLIN ARCHIBALD DICK, A.M. Lawyer; member of Missouri Legislature; 

Lieutenant Colonel U. S. V. 
*JOHN WELSH DULLES (A.B., A.M., Yale; D.D., Princeton). Presbyterian 

clergyman; missionary in South India. 
*ALBERT GALLATIN FREELAND. Merchant. 
*WILLIAM ENGLES HAMILL, A.M. Entered the war as a private in a Penna. 

Emergency Company. 
*WILLIAM SMITH MACPHERSON HILL, A.M. Moderator; studied at Delaware 

College. 

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*JARED INGERSOLL, A.M. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM LOWBER, A.M.; M.D. Naval Surgeon; Medical Inspector, U. S. N. 
*WILLIAM McKiNLEY, A.M. Teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Institute, Phila. 
*GRAYSON MALLET-PREVOST, A.M.; M.D. Moderator; physician; served in 

Mexican War as Asst. Surgeon; settled in Mexico. 
THOMAS SCOTT MARTIN, A.M. Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. V. ; killed at second 

battle of Bull Run. 
*ROBERT NEWTON, M.D. (A.B., A.M., Lafayette). Tutor at Lafayette; Army 

Surgeon in Mexican War; commended by Gen. Scott for bravery. 
"JONATHAN DICKINSON SERGEANT, A.B. Moderator; lawyer; member of 

Historical Society of Penna. 

THOMAS LEE SHIPPEN, A.M. Farmer; private in Confederate Army. 
*ALBANUS SMITH. Studied at Haverford. 
*WILLIAM TERRY TAYLOR, A.M.; M.D. Physician; allied with numerous 

medical societies and a frequent contributor to journals. 
* WASHINGTON STEWART TOLAND, A.M. 
*SAMUEL WILCOX. Active as secretary and treasurer of many corporations and 

active in military affairs. 

CLASS OF 1843 

*JOHN HOWARD ATWOOD, A.M. Merchant; director of Public Schools, Phila. 
*JOHN ALEXANDER BREWSTER, A.M. Lawyer; member California Legislature; 

Surveyor-Gen., California. 
THEODORE HAY COE, A.M. Planter; Captain in Confederate Army; confined 

in Fort Delaware. 
*GEORGE DAWSON COLEMAN, A.M. Moderator; ironmaster; member Penna. 

Legislature; State Senator; Pres. 1st National Bank, Lebanon, Pa.; 

he raised and equipped 93d Penna. Regiment, U. S. V. 
*JOHN C. HAINS. 
*JOHN CAMPBELL HARRIS. 
*ALEXANDER ELMSLIE HARVEY, A.M. Lawyer; member Academy of Natural 

Sciences, Phila. 
*MORTON PEARSON HENRY, A.M. 3>. B. K.; Moderator; lawyer; author 

of works on law. 

*SAMUEL H. JARDEN, A.M. Moderator; manufacturer. 
*LEWIS THEODORE LAGUERENNE. Merchant. 
*FRANCIS WEST LEWIS, A.M. (M.D., Jefferson). <i>. B. K.; physician; connected 

with various medical societies; member Academy of Natural Sciences, 

Phila.; member of American Philosophical Society; Army surgeon. 
*DAVID JAMES McKiBBiN, M.D. Physician; member Penna. Legislature. 
*ROBERT McKiNLEY. Conveyancer. 
*PHILIP SYNG PHYSICK RANDOLPH, A.M. Lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1844 

"JAMES NATHAN BARNES, A.B. (Yale). Lawyer. 
*AUSTIN MONTGOMERY BOWEN. 

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"CHARLES CABOT. Merchant. 

*GEORGE CORREY. 

*SILAS WOOD SEXTON GULP. 

*WILLIAM DULLES. Merchant. 

*SOLOMON ALLEN ENGLES, M.D. Surg. U. S. N. 

*JAMES STERLING FENTON, A.M. Merchant. 

*HUGH COOPER HANSON, A.M. 

*EDWARD TRISTRAM HORATIO HARPER. 

*DANIEL KENDIG, A.M. Moderator; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; chaplain 
U. S. A. 

*ROBERT WALN LEAMING, A.M. Merchant. 

*DANIEL LORD, A.M. (M.D., Chicago Med. College). Dutch Reformed 
clergyman; physician. 

*ALEXANDER McKiNLEY, A.M. Clerk. 

*ANDREW HARRY MANDERSON, A.M. Lawyer. 

*JOEL BARLOW REYNOLDS, A.M. Moderator; Latin salutatorian; mechani- 
cal engineer. 

*SAMUEL MOORE SHUTE, A.M.; D.D. (Mercer Univ.). Moderator; Baptist 
clergyman; Prof, of English Language and Literature in Columbian 
University, Washington, D. C.; author of "A Manual of Anglo-Saxon." 

*JAMES SUDDARDS, A.M., M.D. Naval Surgeon; Medical Director. 

*LIAS ELY WILSON, A.M., M.D. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1845 

*SAMUEL BADGER, JR. Lawyer. 

*WILLIAM HENRY CRABBE, A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 

*PHILIP NICKLIN DALLAS, A.B. (College of N. J.). Lawyer; Secretary U. S. 
Legation to London, 1856. 

*HENRY FLING, A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 

*HENRY SERGEANT LOWBER, A.B. Moderator; lawyer. 

*WILLIAM BRITTON MUSGRAVE, A.M. Moderator; Protestant Episcopal clergy- 
man. 

*JOSEPH RUPERT PAXTON, A.M. Lawyer; author and French translator. 

*WILLIAM RODMAN RUAN. Merchant; served in Confederate Army. 

*ABRAHAM HILYARD SEE, LL.B. (Harvard). Lawyer ; Secretary of Law Academy 
Phila. 

*FISHER COLEMAN SMITH, M.D. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1846 

*ALFRED WITMAN AUNER, A.M. Printer. 

*THOMAS HEWSON BACHE, A.M., M.D. (Jeff.). Physician; connected with 

many medical activities; Army surgeon; Major U. S. V. 
*CALDWELL KEPPELE BIDDLE, A.M., LL.B. Moderator; valedictorian; lawyer; 

secretary Board of Trustees. 
*WILLIAM SERGEANT BLIGHT, A.M. Secretary and Treasurer of Ridge Ave. 

Passenger Railway Co.; Vice-Pres. Alumni Society. 

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*CHARLES FRANCIS BURGIN, A.M., LL.B. (Harvard). Moderator; lawyer; 

glass manufacturer; Pres. Law Academy of Phila. 
*JOHN MASON DUNCAN CHAMBERS, A.B., A.M. (Del. Coll.); M.D. (Jeff.). 

Physician. 

*W ALTER COLQUHOUN CLEEMANN. Secretary and Treasurer Panama R. R. Co. 
*SAMUEL WYLIE CRAWFORD, JR., A.M., M.D., LL.D. Moderator; surgeon; 

soldier; served in Texas and Mexico and in the Civil War; Bvt. Major- 

General U. S. V.; wounded at Antietam; Brigadier-General U. S. A. 

in 1873; published contributions on Mexican volcanoes. 
*HENRY BUCHANAN EDWARDS. Went to California 1848 and assisted survey 

of overland routes; lawyer; Capt. U. S. V. 
* JAMES ELY, A.M. Moderator; devoted to literary pursuits. 
*JAMES SAWYER FARMER, A.M. Real estate agent and conveyancer. 
*WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL HALL. Devoted to literary and scientific study; 

member Historical Society Penna. 
*FRANCIS S. LEWIS. 
*ROBERT MORTON LEWIS, JR., A.M. 

*WILLIAM PHILLIPS LEWIS, A.M., D.D. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 
*CHARLES PLATT, A.M. Merchant. 

*WILLIAM PLATT, JR. Merchant; Mem. U. S. Sanitary Comm. 
*PETER GRUBB RAMBO, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman and evangelist; later 

member of a shipbuilding company; organized Chester City Presbyterian 

Church; pastor Gethsemane Chapel, Phila. 
*EDWARD SHIPPEN, A.M., M.D. Physician and surgeon; served in the Army 

of Ohio and the Army of the Potomac. 
*SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN SHOBER, JR. Merchant. 
*WILLIAM JACKSON SUDLER, M.D. (Jeff.). Physician; farmer. 
*GEORGE DECATUR TWIGGS. Killed in Mexican War while he was a law student. 
*HENRY WHARTON, A.M. Lawyer; member of American Philosophical Society; 

editor of American Law Register. 

CLASS OF 1847 

*ENOCH CARROLL BREWSTER, A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 

*FRANCIS COLLINS CLEMENTS, A.M. Protestant Episcopal clergyman; rector, 

St. Paul's, Trenton, N. J. 
*BENJAMIN JOHNSON CREW. Manufacturing chemist; Sec. Soc. Prevention of 

Cruelty to Children. 
*CHARLES HARMAR, A.M. 
*CHARLES HARTSHORNE, A.M. Moderator; Vice-Pres. of Lehigh Valley R. R. 

Co.; trustee of Haverford, Lehigh and Bryn Mawr universities. 
*ROBERT FORSYTH LAPSLEY. Merchant. 

*JOHN McMlLLAN. 

*WILLIAM WHITE MONTGOMERY, A.M. Moderator; Protestant Episcopal 

clergyman. 

*HENRY PRICE TOLAND (A.B., Princeton), M.D. elsewhere Physician. 
*ROBERTSON WHARTON. 

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CLASS OF 1848 

*DAVID PAUL BROWN, JR. Lawyer; U. S. Comm. Phila. 

*FRANCIS VINCENT GREENE, M.D. Surgeon U. S. N. 

*JOHN HARVEY, JR., A.M., M.D. Physician. 

*JoHN HUGHES, A.M. Moderator; lawyer; State Senator, N. C., 1867; 

candidate for Lieutenant-Governor; Pres. of Va. and N. C. R. R.; Major 

and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Hoke of Confederate Army; Pres. 

Nat'l Bank, New Berne, N. C. 
SAMUEL EMLEN MEIGS. Dry goods comm. merchant; member Historical 

Society of Penna. and of Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 
*CHARLES HOWARD MONTGOMERY. Law student until his death. 
*SAMUEL JOSEPH GUERARD NANCREDE, M.D. Physician. 
*THOMAS NEWBOLD, A.M., M.D. Moderator; physician. 
*THOMAS MC!NTOSH STEWART (A.B., Princeton; LL.B., Harvard). Lawyer. 



CLASS OF 1849 

*CHARLES MEIGS BACHE. Surveyor; made military surveys about Washington 
and Bull Run and Fredericksburg; Asst. U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
Surveyor. 

*GEORGE HAMILTON BROWN. 

*!SAAC DAVIS BUDD. Lawyer; director of Public Schools, Phila. 
JAMES DARRACH, A.M., M.D. Moderator; physician; connected with various 
hospitals and medical societies; member Academy of Natural Sciences; 
member Historical Society of Penna. and Penna. Society Sons of Revolu- 
tion; actg. asst. surgeon U. S. A. 

*SAMUEL FRANKS JACOBS. 

*FINNIX STRETCHER JAQUETT, M.D. (Penna. Med. Coll.). Physician; surgeon 
U. S. V. 

*HENRY LAPSLEY. Stock broker. 

*SAMUEL BROWN WYLIE McLEOD, A.M., M.D. (Coll. Phys. and Surgs., 
N. Y.). Moderator; physician. 

*CHRISTOPHER MAGEE, A.M., LL.B. Lawyer; Judge Ct. Com. Pleas, Allegheny 
Co., Pa.; member Penna. Legislature, 1856; member of the Academy of 
Science and Art, Pittsburgh. 

*EDWARD WHARTON. 



CLASS OF 1850 

*RICHARD MEADE BACHE. Gov't Surveyor; instructor at Yale; member 
American Philosophical Society; published works on miscellaneous sub- 
jects; asst. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Surveyor. 

*ALEXANDER BENSON, JR., A.M. Banker; Greek salutatorian. 

*JOSEPH BLAKE BISPHAM, A.M. Merchant; Capt. U. S. V. 

*!SAAC OLIVER BLIGHT, A.M. Moderator; Gen. Mgr. of State Line and 
Sullivan R. R. and of its mines. 

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*JOHN HILL BRINTON, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.), LL.D. Physician; Pro- 
fessor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College; connected with numerous 
medical societies; member American Philosophical Society; member of 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila. ; contributor to medical journals. 

*JAMES LLOYD CHAMBERLAINE, A.M. 3>. K. S.; farmer; teacher. 

*WILLIAM RUSH DUNTON, A.M., M.D. Physician; member Penna. Society 
Sons of Revolution. 

*ALEXANDER COOK DURBIN, A.M. Moderator; ironmaster; manufactured 
iron plates for the first Monitor and other vessels during the Civil War. 

*NALBRO FRAZIER, JR., A.M. Lawyer; Captain U. S. V. 

*WILLIAM WIRT HARRIS, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman; Chaplain U. S. V.; 
Agent U. S. Sanitary Commission and Superintendent of same at battle 
of Chancellorsville, Va. 

*GEORGE ANTES JENKS, A.M., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer. 

*DAVID LOUGHREY, A.M. Teacher; founder of Md. State Institute for the 
Blind. 

*GEORGE PEPPER MORRIS, A.M., M.D. Physician. 

*JOHN HOOKER PACKARD, A.M., M.D. Surgeon; author, on medical subjects; 
allied with many medical societies and with American Philosophical 
Society; Penna. Historical Society; director Penna. Academy of Fine 
Arts. 

*CLEMENT BIDDLE PENROSE, A.M., LL.D. Lawyer; Judge Orphans' Court; 
member Historical Society of Penna. ; Vice-Provost of the Law Academy, 
Phila. 

JAMES WILTBANK ROBINS, A.M., D.D. 3>. B. K.; valedictorian; P. E. clergy- 
man; head master Protestant Episcopal Academy, Phila.; member of 
American Philosophical Society. 

ABRAHAM LEWIS SMITH, A.M., LL.B. 4>. B. K.; lawyer; Pres. West End Trust 
Co., Phila.; member Historical Society of Penna. 

*ALEXANDER MURRAY STEWART, A.M. Lawyer; Asst. Paymaster U. S. N. 

*THOMAS MAYER WETHERILL, A.M. Moderator (resigned); druggist; lawyer. 



CLASS OF 1851 

*JOSEPH HALSTED CARROLL, A.M. (D.D., Hampden-Sidney Coll.). Presb. 

clergyman; pastor of numerous churches; published a few sermons and 

addresses. 

*JOHN KEPPELE HELMUTH, A.M. P. E. clergyman. 
*THOMAS LINNARD HILDEBURN, A.M. 
*JOHN ASPINWALL HODGE, A.M., D.D. Moderator; Presb. clergyman; 

Prof. Lincoln Univ., Chester Co., Pa.; published various sermons 

and theological works. 
JAMES CHESTON MORRIS, A.M., M.D. 3>. B. K.; delivered the Latin oration; 

physician; mem. Acad. Nat. Sci. and Franklin Inst., Phila., and Amer. 

Philos. Soc. and various medical societies; actg. asst. surg. U. S. A.; 

author of works on hygiene. 

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*EDWARD DELONG PORTER, A.M., Ph.D. Moderator; valedictorian; Prof. 
Nat. Sci. at Del. Coll. ; Prof. Agriculture, Univ. of Minn., and at Univ. of 
Mo.; mem. Acad. Nat. Sci. and Franklin Inst., Phila.; Brig. General, 
State of Del. 

*SAMUEL EMLEN RANDOLPH. Lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1852 

*EDWARD WEBSTER APPLETON, A.M., D.D. P. E. clergyman; rector of 

various churches. 
*SAMUEL ETHERINGTON APPLETON, A.M., D.D. P. E. clergyman; rector 

of Church of the Mediator, Phila. 
*ALBERT DABADIE BACHE. Paymaster U. S. N. 
*HENRY CLIFFORD CAVE. 

*DORSEY Cox, A.M. Moderator; Prof. Math., Burlington Coll., N. J. 
*BRINTON COXE, A.M. Moderator; lawyer; Pres. Hist. Soc. Pa.; writer on 

legal subjects. 
*RICHARD JAMES DUNGLISON, A.M., M.D. Physician; active among medical 

institutions; Pres. Musical Fund Soc., Phila.; mem. Acad. Nat. Sci.; 

Army surgeon; author of medical literature. 
ALFRED (LANGDON) ELWYN, A.M. P. E. clergyman; mem. Hist. Soc. Pa.; mem. 

Pa. Soc. Sons of Revol. 
*CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON, A.M. 4. B. K.; 3>. K. S.; lawyer; direct. Acad. 

Fine Arts, Phila.; mem. Hist. Soc. Pa.; mem. Pa. Soc. Sons of Revolution. 
*ALBERT HEWSON. Sec. of railroads connected with P. R. R. System. 
*JAMES BAYARD HODGE. <1>. K. S. 
*FRANCIS ALBERT LEWIS. Z. Sir. 

*BENONI LOCKWOOD, A.M. Moderator; A. $.; merchant; Major U. S. Vols. 
*SAMUEL BROWN WYLIE MITCHELL, A.M., M.D. Founder 4>. K. S. Frater- 
nity; physician; as volunteer surgeon, was honored with decoration of 

Med. Staff, U. S. A.; founder Mil. Ord. Loyal Legion, U. S.; mem. Hist. 

Soc. Pa. 
ISAAC NORRIS, JR., A.M., M.D. Physician and teacher; Prof. Chem. Phila. 

High School; mem. Am. Philos. Soc.; Acad. Nat. Sci.; Franklin Inst.; 

actg. asst. surgeon U. S. A. 

*ANDREW ADAMS RIPKA. *. K. S.; miner and iron smelter; Capt. U. S. Vols. 
*JOSEPH ENGLES SAMPLE, M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Asst. Surgeon U. S. A. 
*WILLIAM LEHMAN WELLS, A.M., M.D. Z. .; physician; mem. Acad. Nat. 

Sci. 

CLASS OF 1853 

* JAMES CORNELL BIDDLE, A.M. Z. .; civil engineer; merchant; manufacturer; 

' A. D. C. to General Meade and Col. U. S. Vols. 
*ZACHARIAH POULSON DOBSON, A.M., LL.B. Lawyer. 
*JAMES HERVEY DUNLAP, A.M. 

*JOHN PRICE DURBIN, JR., A.B. (Wesleyan Univ., Conn.). Merchant. 
*WDLLIAM HENRY DURBIN, A.M. Moderator; ironmaster. 

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*WILLIAM STANLEY HASELTINE, A.B., A.M. (Harvard). Artist; studied at 
Rome and Dusseldorf ; mem. Nat. Acad. 

*WILLIAM HUSTON. Artist. 

*WILLIAM RANSOM JOHNSON. Clergyman. 

*JOHN KINTZING KANE, JR., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Z. .; physician; sur- 
geon on an Arctic expedition for the relief of his brother, Dr. Elisha 
Kent Kane, U. S. N.; Pres. Del. Med. Soc. 

*DANIEL SMITH MERRITT, A.M., M.D. Physician. 

*WILLIAM Moss, M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Z. *.; physician; surgeon, U. S. Vols. 

*CHARLES HERMAN NORTON, A.M. Clerk. 

*HENRY NEILL PAUL, A.M. Moderator; Z. >.; civil engineer; Pres. Penna. 
Co. for Insuring Lives and Granting Annuities. 

*GIDEON SCULL, JR., A.M. Moderator; Z. .; insurance; Admiral's Sec., 
U. S. N.; Col. U. S. Vols. 

*JAMES PARKE FARLEY SHIPPEN. Z. *. 

*SAMUEL GRANT SMITH. Merchant. 

*GEORGE WARNER, A.M. 

*HENRY COURTLANDT WHELAN. Capt., Major, and Lieut. Col. U. S. Vols. 

CLASS OF 1854 

*HEMAN (ALOYSIUS) ALLEN, A.M. Greek salutatorian; teacher; Prof. Ecclesias- 
tical Music, Roman Catholic Theological Seminary, Chicago, 111.; author 
of books on music. 

* JAMES HOWELL HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D. Moderator; <. K. S.; physi- 
cian; allied with many medical societies; contributor to medical literature; 
mem. Amer. Philos. Soc.; actg. asst. surg. U. S. A. 

*HARDMAN PHILIPS MONTGOMERY. Lawyer. 

*COOPER SMITH, A.M. Commission merchant; served with 1st City Troop, 

1862. 

WILLIAM THOMSON, A.M. Moderator; Presb. clergyman, now retired; 
Moderator of N. J. Synod, '86; delegate to Gen. Presb. Assembly, '80, 
'84, '93, '03. 

*HENRY VETHAKE TOTTEN, B.S. Civil engineer, employed on Panama R. R. 
ALFRED WHARTON, A.M., M.D. Physician. 

CLASS OF 1855 

*GEORGE KIRTLEY BOWEN. A. $.; civil engineer, Phila. & Reading Ry. and 
Midvale Steel Works; farmer; postmaster; Justice of Peace; lieut.-col. 
188th Pa. Reg. U. S. V. 

*THOMAS KITTERA CONRAD, A.M., D.D. (Penna. Coll.). Protestant Episcopal 
clergyman and rector of numerous churches; manager of Drexel Institute; 
contributor to periodical literature. 

SAMUEL DICKSON, A.M., LL.B., LL.D. Moderator; $. B. K.; *. K. S.; vale- 
dictorian; lawyer; trustee U. of P. ; director in corporations and Chancellor 
Law Assoc.; member American Philosophical Society and of Historical 
Society of Penna. 

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*WILLIAM KELLUM FOSTER. 
SIMON GRATZ, A.M. Lawyer; Asst. City Solicitor, Phila.; member Penna. 

Legislature; Board of Education; member Historical Society of Penna. 
*HuGH LENOX HODGE, A.M., M.D. Moderator; Greek salutatorian ; physician; 

allied with many medical societies; actg. asst. surgeon U. S. A. 
SAMUEL LAIRD, A.M., D.D. Lutheran clergyman; pastor St. Mark's 

Church, Phila.; published sermons and addresses. 
*JOHN MACRELISH McGRATH, A.M., M.D. *. K. S.; physician; surgeon with 

rank of Major, U. S. V.; Mem. Mil. Order Loyal Legion U. S. 
*ALEXANDER WILLIAM MITCHELL, A.M. 3>. K. 2. 
*JOHN BEAUCLERC NEWMAN, A.B. Student in Medical Dept. 
*JOSEPH DODGSON NEWLiN, A.M., D.D., LL.D. (Griswold Coll.). Moderator; 

Z. .; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; rector Church of the Incarna- 
tion, Phila. 
EFFINGHAM PEROT, A.M. Merchant; cashier Commonwealth National Bank 

and Seventh National Bank; member Historical Society of Penna. and 

Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 
*JOHN SMITH POWELL, A.M. Lawyer. 
*GEORGE HOUSTOUN WARING, A.M. Z. .; planter; manufacturer; Major 

in Confederate Army. 



CLASS OF 1856 

GEORGE (STANISLAUS) ALLEN, JR., A.M. Lawyer; clerk, Baldwin Locomotive 
Works; teacher of music. 

RICHARD LEWIS ASHHURST, A.M., LL.B. Moderator; 4>. B. K.; Greek 
salutatorian; lawyer; member American Philosophical Society; Historical 
Society of Penna.; Penna. Society Sons of Revolution; Brevet Major 
U. S. V.; Mil. Order Loyal Legion, U. S. 

*WELLIAM HENRY BADGER, A.M. Moderator; Z. ^.; Protestant Episcopal 
clergyman; journalist. 

*FRANCIS BARTLETT CONVERSE, A.M., D.D. (Hampden-Sidney Coll.). Pres- 
byterian clergyman; editor and publisher of the Christian Observer. 

*ALEXANDER BRINTON COXE, A.M. Coal operator. 

HOWARD PORTER DECHERT, A.M. (Princeton). Presbyterian clergyman. 

*JAMES DEVEREUX, JR., A.M. $. K. S. 

CHARLES ELIHU HACKLEY, A.M., M.D. $. K. S.; physician; connected with 
hospitals in New York City; translator of medical treatises; Surg. U. S. V. 

ROBERT HUNTER MCGRATH, JR., A.M., LL.B. $. K. S.; lawyer. 

RICHARD CHANNING MOORE, JR., A.M. P. E. clergyman. 
EDMUND CASH PECHIN, A.M. Moderator and valedictorian; *. K. S.; 
lawyer; mining engineer; member National Geographic Society; con- 
tributor to scientific papers. 

WILLIAM REED, A.M. Lawyer; merchant. 
OSCAR WILLIAM VEZIN. Manufacturer. 



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CLASS OF 1857 

*JOHN ASHHURST, JR., A.M., M.D. Moderator; <i>. B. K.; Greek salutatorian '> 
physician; active in many Philadelphia hospitals and societies; member of 
American Philosophical Society; Academy of Natural Sciences; Historical 
Society of Penna. ; author of medical books; Actg. Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A. 
WILLIAM HENRY HODGE, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor Columbia 
Ave. Church, Phila. 

*SAMUEL HUNTINGTON JONES, A.M., LL.B. Moderator and member of the 
Rosetta Stone Com.; lawyer. 

*HENRY MORTON, A.M., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D. .(Princeton). Moderator; trans- 
lated the Rosetta Stone; designer of Philo badge; lecturer on Chemistry 
Franklin Institute; Prof. Chemistry Phila. Dental College; President of 
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.; established Morton Scholarship; 
member of American Philosophical Society; author of numerous scientific 
works. 

*WILLIAM PLATT PEPPER, A.M. Z. .; admitted to the bar; Pres. Phila. 
Museum and School of Industrial Art, Phila. 

*JOHN GODDARD WATMOUGH. Stock broker. 

*GEORGE RANDOLPH WOOD, A.M., LL.B. Z. >F.; iron manufacturer; commission 
business. 



CLASS OF 1858 

*HENRY ASHHURST, A.M. Z. .; lawyer. 

*DAVID WATTS BIDDLE, A.M. $. K. S.; lumber merchant; Capt. U. S. V. 

*GEORGE TUCKER BISPHAM, A.M., LL.B. Moderator; *. B. K.; A. *.; Greek 
salutatorian; lawyer; Vice- Provost of Law Acad., Phila.; trustee of 
Univ.; Prof, of Equity, Univ. Penna.; Pres. Alumni Society; member 
Historical Society Penna.; Penna. Society Sons of Revolution; author of 
legal treatises. 

*ALFRED PANCOAST BOLLER, A.M., C.E. Civil engineer; built double track 
bridge over Hudson River at Albany, Croton Lake Bridge, railroad bridge 
over Thames River at New London, Conn., etc.; Mem. Amer. Soc. Civil 
Engineers; author of various reports on bridge construction. 

*CHARLES EVERT CADWALADER, A.M., M.D. 3>. B. K.; A. $; Penna. Society 
Sons of Revolution; Military Order Loyal Legion U. S.; Aide-de-Camp to 
General Hooker and General Meade; Lieutenant Colonel U. S. V., 1865, 
for bravery at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Petersburg; published papers 
on various reform subjects. 

*JOHN SYDNEY CRAWFORD, 4>. K. 2.; mining and mechanical engineer; 

Capt. 114th Penna. Reg. U. S. V.; author of treatises on engineering. 
CHARLES WILLIAMS DUANE, A.M. Henry Reed prize at graduation; Protestant 

Episcopal clergyman. 

WILLIAM WEST FRAZIER, A.M. Moderator; merchant; Historical Society 
Penna.; Military Order Loyal Legion U. S.; Captain 6th Penna. Cavalry 
U. S. V. 

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*CHARLES REUBEN HALE, A.M., D.D., LL.D. Member Rosetta Ston 
Committee; <. B. K.; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; Chaplain U. S. N., 
1863; Bishop of Springfield; author of various religious works; recognized 
as an authority in the study of the Eastern Church and Liturgies. 

*WILLIAM HOBART HARE, D.D., LL.D. Protestant Episcopal clergyman; 
Bishop South Dakota; has published occasional sermons and annual 
reports of his mission. 

*GUSTAVUS MARTIN MURRAY, A.M. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

"CHARLES BINGHAM PENROSE, A.M. Moderator; 4>. K. 2.; mfr. until 1861; 
soldier; Brevet Lieut. Col. U. S. A., 1867. 

"ALEXANDER FREEMAN WILLIAMSON. 



CLASS OF 1859 

*EDWIN NORTH BENSON, A.M. Z. ^.; banker, administrator and trustee; 
member Historical Society Penna.; Penna. Society Sons of Revolution; 
Military Order Loyal Legion U. S.; Pres. Union League, Phila.; Pres. 
Electoral College, Penna., at election of Pres. Garfield. 

"FREDERICK BROWN, JR., Ph.G. Druggist. 

"CHARLES EWALD BUCKWALTER, A.M. Moderator; lawyer; Pres. Law Acad- 
emy, Phila., 1862. 

CHARLES MARQUEDANT BURNS, JR. $. K. S.; architect; Acting Asst. Paymaster 
U. S. N. 

"EDWARD PAYSON CAPP, A.M. Henry Reed prize and Senior English 
prize at graduation; Presbyterian clergyman; missionary to China; 
invented a pintype writing machine for the blind. 

"CECIL CLAY, A.M. A. *.; lumber merchant until 1880; Chief Clerk Dept. 
Justice, Washington, D. C., 1882; member Biol. Society, Washington, 
D. C.; member Military Order Loyal Legion U. S.; Brig. Gen. U. S. 
V., 1865. 

"HENRY AUGUSTUS CONVERSE, A.M. Lawyer; published indexes to law 
reports. 

"WILLIAM DARRACH, JR., A.M., M.D. Physician; Acting Asst. Surgeon 
U. S. A., Phila. 

"BENJAMIN WEST FRAZIER, A.M. $. B. K.; sugar refiner, 1869-70; Prof. 
Mining and Metallurgy, Lehigh University, 1870-80; and of Mineralogy 
and Metallurgy at same. 

"CHANDLER HARE, A.M. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 

"EDWARD BLANCHARD HODGE, A.M. Moderator; Greek salutatorian; 4>. B. K.; 
Junior English prize and Senior Greek prize; Presbyterian clergyman. 

"HENRY BAINBRIDGE HOFF, A.M. A. .; 1st Lieut. U. S. M. C. 

"NATHAN CLEMMONS HUNT, A.M. Publisher and bookseller; one of the com- 
pilers of American Edition Enclycopedia Britannica. 

"JAMES HARRISON LAMBDIN. 3>. K. S.; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; 
Aide-de-Camp on staff of Gen. Doubleday; Asst. Adj. Gen. U. S. V., retir- 
ing with rank of Lieut. Col. 

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*WILLIAM McMicHAEL, A.M. 4>. B. K.; Z. >.; lawyer; Pres. Law Acad- 
emy, Phila., 1865; Asst. Atty. Gen. U. S., 1871-73; U. S. District 
Attorney E. D. Penna., 1873-75; Brevet Col. U. S. V. 
CHARLES TABELE McMuLLiN, A.M. Moderator; Presbyterian clergyman. 
*DAVID PEPPER, A.M. Z. >. 

*JOHN MCDOWELL RICE, A.M., M.D. Surgeon; member Military Order 
Loyal Legion U. S.; Asst. Surgeon U. S. N., 1863-68; served with Admiral 
Farragut. 

WILLIAM BOWDOIN ROBINS, A.M. Z. ^.; lawyer. 
JAMES BEATTIE RONEY, A.M. Lawyer. 
*(JEORGE WILBUR RUSSELL, A.M. Jeweler. 

*GEORGE DANIEL STROUD, A.M. (Kenyon). Lawyer; Protestant Episcopal 
clergyman; Quartermaster Sergt. Rush's Lancers U. S. V. (1862); Capt. 
20th Penna. Cavalry U. S. V. 
BENJAMIN HUTCHINSON TATEM. 

HENRY BURMAN TOWNSEND, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor at 
Phillipsburg, Pa., 1867 to date. 

CLASS OF 1860 

*GEORGE MCCLELLAND BREDIN, A.B. 2d Lieut. Penna. Regt. U. S. V. 
THOMAS BROWN. Wholesale grocer; teller in Corn Exchange Nat. Bank, 

Phila. ; Color Sergeant in Penna. Militia. 
*HARRY CONNELLY, JR. Z. *.; stockbroker. 
CALEB (WILLIAM) CRESSON, A.M. A. $. 
LEMUEL JACOB DEAL, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.), Ph.D. Physician; 

member Franklin Institute; Academy Natural Sciences, Phila; Acting 

Asst. Surgeon U. S. A. in charge of Post Hospital, Fort Macomb, La. 
*ARCHIBALD HILL ENGLE, A.M. Brevet Maj. U. S. A.; served on staff of 

Maj. Gen. Schofield. 
WOODRUFF JONES, A.M. Chemist; 2d Lieut. Landis Phila. Battery during 

emergencies in 1862-63; Vice- Pres. of John T. Lewis & Bros. Co. 
*ROBERTSON LEATHEM MACKLIN. Law student in Baltimore, Md. 
*CHARLES MORISON, A.M. Protestant Episcopal clergyman; rector Sunbury, 

Pa., 1882-1909. 
*GEORGE GRICE MYERS. 
*WILLIAM NORRIS. A. *.; Fresh. Latin prize; lawyer; notary public; school 

director; 1st Lieut. 4th Reg. Pa. Mil.; member Historical Society Pa. 
*GEORGE WILLIAM POWELL, A.M. Moderator; lawyer; 1st Lieut. 121st 

Penna. Regt. U. S. V. 

ROBERT WHITE, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman. 
*WILLIAM WURTS WHITE, A.M. Moderator; Z. ^.; valedictorian; Junior 

English prize and Henry Reed prize; merchant. 
DAVID BURT WILLSON, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.), D.D. <. B. K.; 

Moderator; Greek salutatorian; Junior Greek prize and Senior Greek 

prize; Prof. Bib. Lit. Ref. Presb. Theol. Sem., Allegheny, Pa.; Asst. 

Surgeon U. S. A., 1863-65; published addresses. 

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*FRANCIS WISTER, A.M. Z. *.; merchant; Col. U. S. V.; Brvt. Lieut. Col. 
U. S. A.; Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Humphreys; Mem. Mil. Order Loyal 
Legion U. S.; author of "History of the 12th U. S. Infantry." 

CLASS OP 1861 

*FREDERICK MEADE BISSELL, A.B. Merchant, connected with Penna. R. R.; 

member Historical Society Penna. and Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 
*RICHARD HALL DOUGLASS, A.M. *. K. S.; Greek salutatorian; winner of 

Greek and English prizes; Henry Reed prize; Paymaster U. S. N. 
*CHARLES WETHERILL GUMBES, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Physician; 

member Historical Society Penna; Penna. Sons of Revolution; Actg. 

Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A. 

*WILLIAM HENRY GUMBES. Member Academy Natural Sciences, Phila. 
CHESTER DAVID HARTRANFT, A.M., Mus.D., D.D. Moderator; Dutch Ref. 

clergyman; Pres. Hartford Theological Seminary; Capt. Penna. Militia; 

editor of theological works. 

*EDWARD JAMES HEYL, A.M. Lawyer; Soph. Latin Prize. 
*MARTIN PARKINSON JONES, A.M. Moderator; Presbyterian clergyman. 
GREGORY BERNARD KEEN, A.M., LL.D. $. B. K.; valedictorian; prize 

winner in Latin and Greek; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; Librarian, 

U. of P.; Curator, Penna. Historical Society; member Society Sons of 

Revolution; editor, author and translator of miscellaneous works. 
*CHARLES JOSEPH LITTLE, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D. Moderator; Methodist 

Episcopal clergyman; Prof. Philos., English Literature and Political 

Economy, Dickinson College; Prof, of History and Logic, Syracuse Univ.; 

State Librarian, Penna. 
*JOHN ALEXANDER MCARTHUR, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). *. K. S.; 

physician. 

*JOHN SERGEANT MEADE. A.*.; contributor to current literature. 
*JAMES RAWLE, A.M. Manufacturer; civil engineer with Penna. R. R. 
*CHARLES ASHMEAD SCHAEFFER, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D. Teacher; Prof. Chem. 

Cornell University; Pres. Iowa State University; contributed numerous 

articles to scientific papers. 
WILLIAM LEHMAN WALKER. 
*GEORGE WASHINGTON WANNEMACHER, A.M. 
JOHN CHESTER WHITE. Active in various capacities during the war. 

CLASS OF 1862 

*JESSE YOUNG BURK, A.M., S.T.D. 4>. B. K.; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; 
rector St. James, Clarksboro, N. J.; Sec. Board of Trustees, U. of P.; 
member American Philosophical Society and Historical Society Penna. 
JOHN CADWALADER, A.M., LL.D. $. B. K.; A.*.; lawyer; director Public 
Schools; Pres. Trust Co. of North America, Phila.; Vice- Pres. Penna. Insti- 
tute for Blind; member Penna. Historical Society; Penna. Society Sons 
of Revolution; Academy Natural Sciences; Pres. Society of the War 
of 1812. 

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"CHARLES BRINTON COXE, A.M. A 3>; coal operator; Major U. S. V. 

*PERSIFOR FRAZER, A.M., D.Nat.Sc. (Univ. France). A. ^.; chemist and 
geologist; received honors in France; active in many scientific societies; 
Prof, of Chemistry, U. of P. and Franklin Institute; author of mineralogi- 
cal and other works; member American Philosophical Society; Historical 
Society of Penna. ; Academy Natural Sciences; author of many papers. 

*EDWARD SEYMOUR HARLAN, LL.B. Z. *.; lawyer. 

CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, A.M., LL.D. Moderator; <. B. K.; Z. SF.; Greek 
salutatorian; Henry Reed prize; trustee of University, 1876 to date; 
Provost of the U. of P. (1894-1911); financier; member Historical Society 
of Penna. 

*JOHN SPARHAWK JONES, A.M., D.D. (Princeton), S.T.D. Presbyterian clergy- 
man. 

*EDWIN FISHER KING. 

CLIFFORD LEWIS. A. .; Treas. Mutual Assur. Co.; trustee and agent for 
various estates. 

*JOHN GEORGE REPPLIER MCELROY, A.M. Winner of Greek and Latin prizes; 
Prof. Rhet. and English Language, U. of P.; member of the Browning 
Society, Contemporary Club, etc. ; author of works on rhetoric. 

*THOMAS McKEAN, A.M. Z ^; merchant; member Historical Society Penna. ; 
Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 

*WILLIAM GOULD MEIGS, A.M. (Lafayette). Civil engineer with Phila. & 
Reading Ry. ; Sergeant U. S. V. 

*GEORGE PEPPER, A.M., M.D. Z. .; physician; active in the Obstetr. Society 
of Phila.; member Academy Natural Sciences; author of medical treatises. 

*WILLIAM PEPPER, A.M., M.D., LL.D. $. B. K.; Z. *.; Class Pres.; valedic- 
torian; Senior Eng. prize; physician; allied with very many medical 
activities; member American Philosophical Society; Academy Natural 
Sciences, etc.; Prof, in the Medical School U. of P.; Provost (1881-94); 
author of voluminous works on medicine, etc. 

GEORGE BRINTON PHILLIPS, A.B. A. .; chemist; assayer; gold refiner; 
member Franklin Institute, Hist. Soc. of Pa. 

*ROBERT RITCHIE, JR., A.M., LL.B. D.D. (Phila. Divin. Sch.). Protestant 
Episcopal clergyman; rector of St. James the Less, Phila. 

*THOMAS LEAMING SMITH. A. *.; merchant; Sec. to his father, Surgeon Gen. 

Henry H. Smith, Pa., 1861-62. 
EDWARD STARR, B.S. Z. *.; stock broker. 

*SKIPWITH WILMER, A.M., LL.B. Moderator; Z. .; lawyer; Lieut, and 
A. D. C. in Confederate Army. 

CLASS OF 1863 

*WOLCOTT RICHARDS BISSELL. 

*CHARLES W. BREAKER. 

WILLIAM JAMES DAY. Presbyterian clergyman; Home Missionary to the 
Wyoming Valley; built numerous mountain churches there for forty- 
seven years; Chaplain in N. G. P.; Corporal Penna. Militia. 

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*DANIEL JACOBY, A.M. Lawyer. 

WILLIAM MAIN, JR., A.M. Mining engineer and metallurgist; Prof, of Chem- 
istry and Geology, University of So. Carolina; consulting engineer; 
member of various chemical societies. 

JAMES LOGAN NEWBOLD, A.M. Note broker. 

*GEORGE WASHINGTON PAULY, A.M. Awarded Senior English prize; Protes- 
tant Episcopal clergyman. 

JOHN WOODBRIDGE PATTON, A.M. (Princeton). Lawyer; Pres. of The Mort- 
gage Trust Co. 

CHARLES PENROSE PERKINS, A.M., C.E. Moderator; Z. *.; civil engineer. 
*HENRY BALDWIN PLUMER, LL.B. (Harvard). Lawyer; Lieut. Col. N. G. P. 

WILLIAM BROOKE RAWLE, A.M. Moderator; lawyer; Treas. Law Associa- 
tion, Phila.; member Penna. Historical Society; Penna. Society Sons of 
Revolution; Captain U. S. V.; Lieut. Col. 5th Penna. Cavalry U. S. V.; 
2d Lieut. U. S. Cavalry; published historical papers. 

EUGENE IRVING SANTEE, A.M., M.D. Physician; member Academy Natural 
Sciences, etc. 

EUGENE MILLER SMYSER, M.D. Physician and druggist; Asst. Surgeon 

U. S. V. 

*FRANCIS GARDEN SMYTH, A.M., M.D. Physician; member of Academy Natural 
Sciences and of various medical societies. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON SPIESE, A.M. Lawyer; member Franklin Institute; 
Historical Society Penna. 

EDWARD WILLARD WATSON, M.D. Moderator; physician; allied with various 
medical institutions. 

SAMUEL YOUNG, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor in Allegheny City, Pa. 

CLASS OF 1864 

FRANKLIN DICK CASTLE, A.M., M.D. (Univ. Wurzburg). Winner of Greek 
and English prizes; Greek salutatorian; physician; author "Hygiene of 
the Eye." 

WILLIAM PRICHARD COLEMAN, B.S. *. K. S.; superintendent of a rolling mill; 
merchant in San Francisco; Pres. Lead & Zinc Smelting Co., Rich Hill, 
Mo. 

*RICHARD MOORE GRAIN, M.D. (Penna. Med. Coll.). Physician. 
WILLIAM JOHN FAIRES, A.M. Teacher in his father's Classical Institute; 

printer; clerk for Penna. R. R. 

*HENRY SMITH GOODWIN. Corporal in Univ., Light Artillery. 
ALFRED CRAVEN HARRISON, A.M. Z. .; sugar refiner. 

*RICHARD SOMERS HAYES, A.M. Moderator; chief engineer, manager and 

president of railroads; American Philosophical Society; Mem. Amer. Soc. 

Civil Engineers; N. Y. Soc. Sons of Revol.; private First Troop Phila. 

City Cav., 1863. 

FRANCIS HEYL, JR., A.M. Presbyterian clergyman and missionary to North 

India; pastor Eddington, Bucks Co., Pa. 
WILLIAM MOORE, JR. Lawyer; member N. J. Historical Society. 

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CHARLES ELDRIDGE MORGAN, JR., A.M. <. K. S.; lawyer; Asst. City Solicitor; 

Vice-Pres. Law Academy, Phila. 
WALTER GEORGE OAKMAN, A.M. Moderator; banker; director and president 

of railroad companies. 

*ROBERT JAMES SERVICE STEEN, A.M. Merchant. 
*JAMES COLE VANDYKE, JR. A. .; clerk; manager. 

"HOWARD WOOD, A.M. Moderator; valedictorian; iron manufacturer; member 
Franklin Institute; Historical Society Penna., etc. 

CLASS OF 1865 

*WILLIAM SAMUEL ARMSTRONG, M.D. Physician. 
BEAUVEAU BORIE, A.M. Z. .; manufacture!; banker and broker; member 

Historical Society of Penna. and Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 
"Louis ADOLPHUS DUHRING, M.D., LL.D. $. K. 2.; studied abroad; physi- 
cian and dermatologist; Clinical Prof, of Skin Diseases, U. of P.; Fellow 

of College of Physicians, Phila.; allied with various medical societies; 

author of books on skin diseases. 
JOHN HOLBROOK EASBY. Lawyer. 

*JOHN SERGEANT GERHARD, A.M., LL.B. Attorney-at-Law. 
GEORGE WOOLSEY HODGE, A.M., S.T.D. Moderator; winner of Henry 

Reed prize; P. E. clergyman; Asst. Minister at Christ Church, Phila.; 

rector of the Church of the Ascension; chaplain of the Penna. Society 

Sons of the Revolution. 
*!NMAN HORNER. Z. .; lawyer; Vice-Pres. Law Academy, Phila.; member 

American Philosophical Society. 
*HENRY REED JULIAN. 
JOHN THOMPSON LEWIS, JR., A.M. A.*.; manufacturer; banker and broker; 

Treas. of Board of Managers of Penna. Hosp. 
ROBERT EMMET MCDONALD, A.M. Moderator; Class Historian; farmer; 

Justice of the Peace. 
*HORACE MAGEE, A.M. A. .; lawyer. 
THOMAS CARSWELL MILES. Manager of Leland Camphor Co. and the Railroad 

Signals Co.; Chief Clerk to Paymaster Buchanan, U. S. N.; A. D. C. to 

Gov. Grover Cleveland, rank of Colonel. 

WILLIAM WOODROW MONTGOMERY, A.M., LL.B. <. K. 2.; lawyer. 
WILLIAM WILBBRFORCE NEWTON, A.M., D.D. Moderator; Class Poet; P. 

E. clergyman; rector of St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, Mass.; member School 

Comm.; organized the "American Congress of Churches;" author of many 

religious books. 
*THOMAS CLARKSON PARRISH, M.D. Merchant for a while; State Senator, 

Colorado; artist, specializing in etching. 
*HENRY PEPPER, A.M., LL.B. Z. .; lawyer. 
*HENRY REED, A.M. *. B. K.; Z. .; lawyer; Judge Court Common Pleas, 

No. 3, Phila.; trustee U. of P.; member American Philosophical Society; 

Penna. Society Sons of Revolution; author "Law of the Statute of Frauds" 

and other legal works. 

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SAMUEL RITCHIE, A.M. Merchant. 
*WILLIAM EVANS ROGERS. Soldier; lawyer in Mich, and organizer of Presque 

Isle County, whose seat is named for him; merchant in N. Y. City and 

member and chairman of Board of R. R. Commission and prepared their 

reports; Lieut. U. S. Engineer Corps. 
*WILLIAM ASHMEAD ScHAEFFER, A.M. (D.D. elsewhere). Lutheran clergyman 

and pastor of St. Stephen's, Phila. 
*JOHN CLARKE SIMS, JR., A.M. 4>. K. S.; lawyer; Sec. Penna. R. R. Co.; trustee 

U. of P.; member Penna. Society Sons of Revolution; Academy of Natural 

Sciences, Phila.; Mem. of the Soc. of the Cincinnati. 
*THOMAS DIEHL STICHTER, A.M. Moderator; merchant; member City 

Councils, Reading, Pa.; member Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 
*RICHARD NEWTON THOMAS, A.M. P. E. clergyman; rector at several churches 

in Phila.; editor of Amer. Ch. Sun. School Mag. 
JAMES NAPOLEON WALKER, A.M. (Lafayette). <. K. S.; studied at Princeton 

Theol. Seminary; Prof. Eng. Lit., Girard College, Phila. 
*CONSTANTINE HfiRiNG WILLIAMSON. Conveyancer; clerk; director and 

president of Public School Board, 9th Section, Phila. 

CLASS OF 1866 

*FREDERICK WILLIAMSON BEASLEY, JR., A.M. Law student; Master of Latin 

and Greek Languages, Episcopal Academy, Phila. 
HENRY CLAY BROWN, A.M. Merchant until 1876; since then lawyer. 
*WILLIAM RUFUS BUCKNELL. Z. .; lumber merchant. 
CHARLES H. CALDWELL. 

*SAMUEL HICKS CLAPP. Engaged in mercantile business ; lawyer. 
*CLEMENT CRESSON DICKEY, A.M. Presbyterian clergyman; pastor 63d St. 

Church, Phila.; Prof. Hebrew, Lincoln University, Oxford, Pa. 
*HAMILTON GRAY, JR. Wine merchant. 

ISAAC MINIS HAYS, A.M., M.D. Moderator; physician and editor; 
allied with various medical institutions; member American Philosophical 
Society, and one of its secretaries; editor of American Journal of Medical 
Science. 

FRANCIS COLLINS HEADMAN. A. <$.; conveyancer. 
*JOHN WHITE HOFFMAN, A.M. Moderator; Z. *.; civil engineer; dealer in 

railroad supplies. 

*Oris HOWARD KENDALL, A.M., LL.B., Ph.D. (Wittenberg). $. K. .; lawyer; 
Instructor and Asst. Prof, in Mathematics, U. of P.; Headmaster American 
Faculty of Actuaries. 

*JOHN ALSOP KING, A.M. A. $.; merchant. 
*CRAIGE LIPPINCOTT. A. .; publisher; director in several banks and trust 

companies, Phila. 

HARRY INGERSOLL MEIGS, A.M. P. E. clergyman; rector Whitemarsh, Mont- 
gomery Co., Pa. 

JOHN BUCK MORGAN, A.M. Moderator; $. K. S.; Class Orator; Pres. 
Berkshire Mfg. Co.; member Penna. Society Sons of Revolution. 

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*Louis HORACE PAULY, A.M. Winner of Philo prizes; winner of Henry Reed 

prize; Greek salutatorian; lawyer. 
*GEORGE ALBERT REDLES. Clergyman in Ref. Episcopal Church; rector 

of the Church of the Redeemer, Phila. 
*FRANCIS MCALLISTER ROSER. Teacher. 
CHARLES ALLSTON STONE. Master and Lieut. U. S. N. 



CLASS OF 1867 

GEORGE HENRY BALL, A.M. Z. SK; mechanical engineer. 

CHARLES WILLING BEALE. Z. . 

FREDERICK CARROLL BREWSTER, JR., A.M. A. <$.; lawyer; member Lawyers 

Club; member Union League. 
*RICHARD WELLS CLAY. Lawyer; banker. 

*GERALD FITZGERALD DALE, JR., A.M. Moderator; valedictorian; Presby- 
terian clergyman and missionary to Syria, 1872-86. 

*ALONZO POTTER DOUGLASS, A.M., LL.B. Lawyer; Sec. to Commodore Fred- 
erick Engle, U. S. N.; member Military Order Loyal Legion, U. S. 
*CHARLES ALBERT DUHRING. Coal trade; pottery, glass and crockery trade; 

director Public Schools, Phila. 

HERMAN COPE DUNCAN, A.M., S.T.D. (Hobart). Protestant Episcopal clergy- 
man; Dean, Alexandria, La., 1888 to date; Fellow N. O. Academy Science; 
author of several published lectures and sermons. 
ROBERT FRAZER, JR., A.M. Moderator; A. ^.; $. B. K.; civil and mining 

engineer; member American Institute Mining Engineers. 

*THOMAS HOLLINGSWORTH LYMAN, A.M. Received injuries by premature 

discharge of one of the minute guns fired by Univ. Light Artillery, at 

Lincoln's funeral procession in Phila.; received gold medal from students 

in recognition of injuries. 

SAMUEL MAXWELL MclNTYRE. A. .; lawyer; military Order Loyal Legion, 

U. S. 

ARCHIBALD ROGER MONTGOMERY, A.M. Z. .; lawyer; member Penna. 
Society Sons Revolution; seriously wounded by premature discharge of 
gun in Univ. Light Artillery at Lincoln's funeral procession. 
CLEMENT STOCKER PHILLIPS, JR. A. *.; mfg. chemist. 
*WILLIAM GIBBS PORTER, M.D. Physician; Fellow, Coll. of Phys. and once 

its Sec'y; member Am. Med. Assoc.; contributor to medical journals. 
*JOHN ROBERT PROCTOR. Geologist; State Geologist, Ky., 1880 to 1893; U. S. 

Civil Service Commissioner, 1893 to 1903. 

EDWARD Fox PUGH, A.M. Moderator; awarded Junior English and Senior 
Phil, prizes; lawyer; member Historical Society Penna. ; author of various 
legal treatises. 

ARTHUR RITCHIE, JR., A.M., D.D. (Nashotah). Protestant Episcopal clergy- 
man; editor Catholic Champion and author of religious papers; teacher 
in Episcopal Acad. 
NEWCOMB BUTLER THOMPSON, A.M. A. *.; lawyer. 

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CHARLES EDWARD VAN PELT, A.M. A. <.; member Historical Society Penna. ; 

Univ. Light Artillery, 1863-67. 
*JOHN WANDESFORD WRIGHT, A.M., LL.B. Z. *.; Greek salutatorian; lawyer. 



CLASS OF 1868 

*EowiN JOHN BAKER. Fresh, and Soph. Declam. prizes; Assoc. Judge, Pike 

Co., Pa. 

WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT, A.M. (Brown Univ.), M.D. Physician. 
*FREDERICK JOHN BOLLER, C.E. (Renss. Poly. Inst.). Civil engineer. 
HENRY BUDD, A.M. l>. B. K.; lawyer; member Historical Society Penna.; 
author of "Sharswood and Budd's Leading Cases, with Notes," 3 vols.; 
also reports, essays and reviews in legal and literary journals; editor of 
University. 

*CHARLES CAMBLOS, JR. A. . ; banker and broker. 

*ROBERT NEILSON CLARK. 4>. K. S.; member Academy Natural Sciences, 
Phila.; mining engineer with Denver & Rio Grande R. R. for fifteen 
years. 
JOSEPH HORNOR COATES, A.B. Merchant; author; member Historical Soc., 

Pa. 
*JAMES HUGH ELLIOT. A. ^.; bookseller; farmer; newspaper mgr. and editor; 

member Del. Historical Society. 
EDWARD FENNO HOFFMAN, A.M. Moderator; Z. *.; Class Poet; lawyer; 

edited an edition of the poems of his uncle, Charles Fenno Hoffman. 
*GUSTAVUS BROWN HORNER, A.M. Moderator; Z. SF.; stock broker. 
*LEIGHTON HOSKINS, A.M. Awarded Junior Greek and Alumni Senior Latin 

prizes; Protestant Episcopal Clergyman. 

EWING JORDAN, A.M., M.D. Moderator; won Senior English prize; physician; 
life member Historical Society Penna; Swedish Soc. of Perina.; Colonial 
Soc. of Penna.; Mem. Penna. Soc. Sons of Revo. 
WALTER LIPPINCOTT. Member Sons Amer. Revolution and Franklin Institute; 

publisher. 

WILLIAM ROBERT McADAM, JR., A.M. Lawyer. 
GEORGE DEARDORFF MCCREARY. Coal operator; Treas. City of Phila., 

1892-95. Member of Congress. 

*JOHN ELMORE MCCREARY, A.M. Iron and coal business. 
*CHARLES EDWARD RONALDSON, A. B., M.E. (Lehigh). Z. ^.; mechanical 

engineer; member Amer. Instit. Min. Eng.; Franklin Institute. 
*JAMES PEACOCK SIMS, A.M. <i>. K. 2.; Class Prophet; architect. 
CHARLES HENRY SPENCER, A.B. (Princeton). A. <.; mfr.; commission mcht. 
WILLIAM UHLER. Clerk. 
*CARL ADOLPH MAX WIEHLE, A.M., M.D. Physician; builder; mfg. chemist; 

capitalist. 

CHARLES FREDERICK ZIEGLER, A.M. "Spoonman" of class. Lawyer and 
notary public; director Public Schools, Phila., 1878-80; member Histori- 
cal Society Penna; editor and publisher of "University." 

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CLASS OF 1869 

*ROBERT ADAMS, JR., A.M., B.F. Moderator; A. >.; lawyer; U. S. Minister 
to Brazil, 1889-90; member of Congress; member Historical Society 
Penna.; member Penna. Society Sons Rev. 

GEORGE POMEROY ALLEN, A.M., D.D. Moderator; A. ^.; i>. B. K.; Protes- 
tant Episcopal clergyman. 
*ALBERT SYDNEY ASHMEAD, JR., M.D. Physician; contributed various papers 

to medical journals. 

JOHN GRANT BAWN, A.M., Ph.D. Protestant Episcopal clergyman. 
ELLIS YARNALL BROWN, A.M. <. B. K.; Greek salutatorian; accountant. 
WILLIAM HENRY BURNETT, A.M. . B. K.; lawyer. 
*JAMES HOPKINS CARPENTER, A.M. Lawyer; member Penna. Society Sons 

Revolution. 
HENRY NEIDIG FEGLEY, A.M., D.D. Luth. clergyman; at St. Mark's Church, 

Mechanicsburg, Pa., for forty years. 

*ROBERT GRAHAM, A.M., D.D. Senior Greek prize; Presby. clergyman. 
WILLIAM WELSH HARRISON, A.M., LL.D. (Ursinus Coll.). Sugar refiner. 
*ALBERT GALLATIN HEYL, M.D. Physician and ophthalmologist; author of 

various medical papers. 

THOMAS REED LIST, A.M. P. E. Clergyman. 

*FRANKLIN FISHER MAXFIELD, A.B. Henry Reed prize; valedictorian. 
*GEORGE MCCLELLAN, M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Z. *.; physician; Prof. 

Anatomy Jeff. Med. Coll. 
WILLIAM BOARDMAN REED, M.D. Junior Phil, prize; journalist; physician; 

Am. Med. Assoc.; Capt. U. S. V. 

EDWARD RITCHIE, A.M., S.T.B. Mfr.; P. E. clergyman. 
GEORGE HAY STUART, A.M. <. K. S.; mercantile business; insurance business. 
RICHARD FRANCIS WOOD, A.M. Moderator; A. *.; lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1870 

*CHARLES DOUGLASS BARBER. 
FRANCIS ENOCH BREWSTER, A.M. Lawyer. 
JOHN MARIE CAMPBELL, A.M., LL.D. Lawyer; Pres. Elector Penna., 1880; 

del. Dem. Nat. Conventions of 1884 and 1892. 

*GEORGE MARTIN CHRISTIAN, A.M., D.D. (Nashotah Theolog. Sem.). Moder- 
ator; awarded Henry Reed prize; P. E. clergyman. 
FRANK LAURENT CLERC, C.E. (Lehigh). Civil engineer. 
*HUGH CRAIG, JR. A. >F.; merchant. 
*HENRY TREVOR ECKERT. A. . 
*THEODORE HERMAN ERNST, A.B. 
*CHARLES FRY, A.B. A. *.; lawyer. 

HAROLD GOODWIN, A.M., LL.B. <. B. K.; awarded Senior Eng. prize; shared 
Sen. Greek prize; won Alumni Senior Latin prize; Greek salutatorian; 
glue mf r. ; lawyer. 

*WILLIAM WOODNUTT GRiscoM, A.M. Franklin Institute, Phila. ; Am. Philos. 
Soc. 

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ROBERT MENDENHALL HUSTON, A.M. <. K. S.; asst. eng. U. S. N. 
CHARLES AUGUSTUS MARCH, A.M. Clerk. 

GEORGE Fox MARTIN, A.M. <J>. B. K.; school teacher at Epis. Acad. 
CHARLES BRASSINGTON MEE, A.B. (St. Stephen's). P. E. clergyman. 
*ARTHUR VINCENT MEIGS, M.D. Physician; Fellow and once Prest. Coll. of 
Phys., Phila.; American Philosophical Society; Penna. Society Sons 
Revolution; author of medical pamphlets. 
*ALEXANDER JAMES MILLER, A.M. Moderator; awarded Junior Eng. prize; 

P. E. clergyman. 

*CHARLES ROCHESTER PARVIN, M.D. Physician. 

ROBERT MASKELL PATTERSON, A.B. A. .; railway eng. with Penna. R. R. 
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS, A.M., Ph.D. $. K. S.; educator. 
*GEORGE SHARSWOOD, JR. A. .; lawyer; author. 

HENRY GALBRAITH WARD, A.M. Moderator; <. B. K.; awarded Jun. Phil, 
prize; valedictorian; shared Sen. Greek prize; lawyer; U. S. Circuit 
Judge for the Second Circuit. 

CLASS OF 1871 

Louis NAGLEE BRUNER, A.M. A. SF. 

HERMAN BURGIN, A.M., M.D. (Jeff. Med. Coll.). Physician; member His- 
torical Soc. Penna. ; member and one of the founders of Penna. Society 
Sons Revolution. 

HAMPTON LAWRENCE CARSON, A.M., LL.B., LL.D. Moderator; awarded 
Junior English prize and A'umni Junior Declam. prize; lawyer; American 
Philosophical Society; Historical Society Penna.; Penna. Society Sons 
Revolution; author and editor; Atty.-Gen. of Penna. 

*WILLIAM GARDINER FREEDLEY, A.M. Moderator; member Academy Natu- 
ral Sciences, Phila. 

CRAIG HEBERTON. A. .; stockbroker; member Penna. Society Sons Revolu- 
tion. 

CHARLES HENRY HOWELL, A.M. Lawyer. 

MARCELLUS KARCHER, A.M. P. E. clergyman. 

NEWTON KEIM, A.M. Awarded Junior Phil, prize and Senior English prize; 
lawyer. 

MORRIS JAMES LEWIS, A.M., M.D., Ph.D. Physician; frequent contributor 
to medical journals; Fell. Coll. Phys., Phila. 

EVERARD PATTERSON MILLER, A.M., B.D. P. E. clergyman; has published 
sermons. 

WILLIAM RHOADS MURPHY, A.M. Lawyer. 
*WILLIAM PEPPER NORRIS, A.M. Z. .; lawyer. 

*ALAN HOWARD REED. Journalist; merchant; member Historical Society 
Penna. 

HERBERT WELSH, A.M. Moderator; <i>. B. K.; "Spoon-man" of class; 
artist until 1882; engaged in work in behalf of Indian tribes of North 
America; member American Philosophical Society (1884); author. 
BENJAMIN HORNOR YARNALL, A.M. Civil engineer. 

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CLASS OF 1872 

JOSEPH HOWELL BURROUGHS. Z. .; lawyer. 
ARTHUR BURT. Z. *.; merchant; farmer. 
*WILLIAM JAMES CAMPBELL. Lawyer; del. Rep. Nat. Conv., 1880, '88, '92; 

chmn., Rep. Nat. Committee, 1892; Mem. 111. Leg. 

BENNINGTON FITZ RANDOLPH CLARK. Presbyterian clergyman; railroad agent. 
*EDWARD COOK CLAY. R. R. business. 
*RICHARD COLEGATE DALE, JR., A.M. Moderator; $. B. K.; Senior English 

prize; lawyer; Pres. Law Acad., Phila. 
*JAMES STERLING FENTON, JR., A.M., B.D. (Gen. Theol. Sem.). Lawyer; 

clergyman. 
ROBERT PATTERSON FIELD, A.M. A. ^.; civil and mining engineer; member 

American Philosophical Society. 

*WILLIAM LOGAN Fox, C.E. (Renss. Poly. Inst.). A. $.; miner and mfr. of oil. 
ALEXANDER PURVES GEST, C.E. (Renss. Poly. Inst.). Civil engineer, with 

Penna. R. R. Co. 

"CHARLES BLOOMFIELD GOLDSBOROUGH, A.M., M.D. Awarded prize for medical 
thesis at graduation and gold medal for best dissecting record; surgeon; 
Am. Med. Assoc. 

JAMES ROBARDET HOPKINS. Clerk. 
EDWARD HOPKINSON, A.M. Lawyer. 
Louis KALBFUS LEWIS, A.M. P. E. clergyman. 

WILLIAM MONTGOMERY MEIGS, A.M., M.D. "Spoon-man" of class; lawyer; 
author; member Historical Society Penna. and Penna. Soc. Sons Revolution. 
*HOWARD MURPHY, B.S., M.S. Civil engineer; hydraulic engineer; contribu- 
tor to scientific journals. 
*HAMILTON MURRAY, JR., A.B. (Princeton). 

*JAMES MONROE MURRAY, A.M., M.D. Z. .; physician; Asst. Surg. U. S. N. 
HARRY WALSTANE DE NANCREDE, A.M. P. E. clergyman. 
*HOLLINGSWORTH NfiiLL, M.D. A. .; physician. 
JOHN RODMAN PAUL, JR., A.M. $. B. K.; lawyer; Pres. Law Acad., Phila.; 

author. 
*HENRY ROBERT PERCIVAL, A.M., D.D. (Nashotah). P. E. clergyman; author 

"A Digest of Theology;" Class Historian. 

ALFRED INGERSOLL PHILLIPS, A.B., LL.B. $. K. S.; lawyer; author. 
*GEORGE TYBOUT PURVES, A.M., D.D. (Wash, and Jeff.). Moderator; Z. .; 
3>. B. K.; awarded Junior Phil, and Henry Reed prizes; Presbyterian 
clergyman; author of papers on theological and critical subjects. 
FRANKLIN LAWRENCE SHEPPARD, A.M. Moderator; $. B. K.; Alumni Sen. 

Latin prize; iron founder; member Union League, Phila. 
*CHARLES ELLIS STEVENS, A.M., Ph.D., B.D., LL.D., D.C.L. (Kings Coll.); 
P. E. clergyman; Fellow American Geol. Soc.; Penna. Society Sons Revo- 
lution. F.R.G.S. (London). 
JOHN BONSALL TAYLOR, A.M. Lawyer. 

SAMUEL HINDS THOMAS, A.M. Shared Sen. Greek prize; lawyer. 
*WILLIAM HERBERT WASHINGTON, A.B. Lawyer; author of various articles 
in legal periodicals. 

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CLASS OF 1873 

"WILLIAM MORRIS BARKER, A.B., A.M., D.D. P. E. clergyman. 
EDWARD JORDAN BELL, A.M. Life member Historical Society Penna. ; traveler. 
*CHARLES ALRICH BESSON, B.S., M.S. Commencement Orator; lawyer. 
WILLIAM Bo YD, JR., A.B., A.M. Shared Senior Greek prize; Commencement 

Speaker; Presbyterian clergyman. 
JOHN WILLIAM BROCK, A.B., A.M. Z. ^.; lawyer; member Penna. Society 

Sons Revolution. 
FRANCIS VON ALBADE CABEEN (Sci.). A. $.; iron comm. business; member 

Historical Soc. Penna.; Penna. Soc. Sons Rev. 
JOSEPH CRAWFORD EGBERT, B.S., M.D., Ph.D. Teacher; physician; Penna. 

Society Sons Revolution. 
HUGH JOHN FAGEN, B.S., LL.B. Lawyer. 
JAMES LOGAN FISHER, B.S. Lawyer. 

PERCIVAL HOLL HICKMAN, B.S. Teacher; P. E. clergyman. 
CHARLES PENROSE KEITH, B.S. Class Historian; teacher; lawyer; member 

Historical Society Penna. ; author. 
*HENRY CARVILL LEWIS, A.M. Class Poet; geologist; American Philosophical 

Society; Academy Natural Sciences, Phila.; Franklin Institute, Phila.; 

teacher; author. 

RUDOLPH LEE NEFF, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Lawyer. 
HENRY PLEASANTS, JR., B.S. Lawyer; author. 
COLEMAN SELLERS, JR., B.S., M.S. Moderator; Class Prophet; valedictorian; 

mechanical engineer; member American Philosophical Society; Franklin 

Institute, Phila.; Comm. of Navigation for Del. River and tributaries 

since 1908. 
ROBERT MEADE SMITH, A.B., A.M., M.D. Awarded prize for medical thesis 

at graduation; physician; member Academy Natural Sciences, Phila; 

Fell. Coll. Phys., Phila.; author of articles in medical journals. 
* WILLIAM RUDOLPH SMITH (Arts). Z. .; lawyer; member Penna. Society 

Sons Revolution. 
*WILLIAM VON ALBADE WILLIAMSON (Sci.), LL.B. Z. V.; lawyer; clerk U. S. 

Circuit Court of Appeals. 

*CHARLES JAMES WILLS (Arts). Salesman; mfr.; mission worker. 
*LESTER WELLS, B.S. Mechanical engineer. 
WILLIAM FORCE WHITAKER, A.B., A.M. Moderator; awarded Alumni Sen. 

Latin prize and shared Sen. Greek prize; Latin salutatorian; Presbyterian 

clergyman. 
CHARLES ADDAMS YOUNG, B.S., M.S. Moderator; on committee which moved 

library and furniture from Ninth St. to present building; Sec. and Treas. 

Zenith Milling Co., Kansas City, Mo., 1880 to date. 

CLASS OF 1874 

*CHARLES ALBERT ASHBURNER, B.S., M.S., D.Sci. Moderator; geologist; 
U. S. Geological Survey; Pa. Geologist; member American Philosophical 
Society; Academy Natural Sciences, Phila.; American Ins. Mining 

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Engineers; American Society Mechanical Engineers; author of works on 

Mines and Geology in U. S. and contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

*CHARLES CHAUNCEY BINNEY (A.B., Harvard). Freshman Greek prize; lawyer; 

Asst. Atty. Gen. U. S. ; author. 
GEORGE HORACE BURGIN, M.D. Physician; member of Historical Soc. of 

Penna. ; one of founders of Penna. Soc. Sons of Rev. 
GEORGE HENRY CHRISTIAN, JR., B.S. Builder of gas works. 
FRANCIS ALOYSIUS CUNNINGHAM, B.S. (A.B., A.M., Georgetown). Civil 

engineer; lawyer; bookseller and publisher. 

JOSEPH DE FOREST JUNKIN, A.B., A.M. Moderator; Sen. Latin prize; 
Ivy Orator; lawyer; member Union League, Art Club, Penn Club, 
Lawyers' Club, Law Association, Bachelors' Barge Club, Phila. C. C., 
Merion Cricket Club. 

EDWARD DILLON (A.M., Lafayette). Presbyterian clergyman. 
JOSEPH ELEUTERIO HATTON (Sci.). Electrical Engineer. 
*WILLIAM BARTON HOPKINS, M.D. Physician; surgeon; Fellow College of 

Physicians; contributor to medical journals. 
*JOHN WILLIAM KAYE (A.B., College of N. J.). Z. *.; P. E. clergyman; Penna. 

Militia. 

JOHN FRANCIS MAHER, B.S., M.S., LL.B. Lawyer; teacher. 
ALEXANDER WILCOCKS MEIGS (Arts). Merchant. 

*GEORGE GLUYAS MERCER, LL.B. (A.B., Haverford; LL.M., 78, Yale; D.C.L., 
'79, Yale). Lawyer; member American Bar Assoc.; member Society 
Political Economy. 
SAMUEL MONEY, JR. (Sci.). Lawyer. 

WILLIAM PARKER PATTERSON (A.B., College of N. J.). Presbyterian clergy- 
man. 

NALBRO FRAZIER ROBINSON, A.B., A.M. Latin salutatorian; Senior Greek 
prize; P. E. clergyman; mission priest of Soc. of St. John, the Evangelist. 
*HARRY EDMONDS SMITH (Arts). Stock broker. 
*NORRIS WILLCOX SMITH (Sci.). Engineer. 

*HARRY FULTON STERLING, M.D. (Jefferson Medical College). Z. ^.; physician. 
ALBERT BORDEN WILLIAMS, B.S., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1875 

FREDERICK DILLER BAKER (Arts). Engaged in mercantile business. 

FRANK EYRE, M.D., Ph.D., '76, D.D.S. (Phila. Dantal Coll.). A. .; physician. 

CHARLES WELLINGTON FREEDLEY, A.B., A.M. Moderator; lawyer. 

EDWARD BALDWIN GLEASON, B.S., M.D. Physician. 
*WILLIAM HENRY HOLLIS, A.B., A.M. 

SAMUEL THOMAS KERR, A.B., A.M. Merchant. 

*CALHOUN MEGARGEE, M.D. A. .; physician; hon. mention for Med. Thesis 
at graduation. 

DANIEL JOHN MILTON MILLER, M.D. Physician. 

EWING LAWRENCE MILLER (Sc.). Merchant; member Penna. Historical 
Society. 

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CASPER MORRIS, A.B., A.M., M.D. Physician; Prof. Phila. Polyclinic College; 
Fellow College of Physicians. 

EFFINGHAM BUCKLEY MORRIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. <S>. K. S.; "Spoon-man;" 
lawyer; Pres. College Alumni Society, 1891-93; Pres. Girard Trust Co.; 
Director, Penna. R. R., and many other corporations; trustee, U. of Pa. 

WILLIAM RUCKMAN PHILLER, A.B., A.M., LL.B. <. K. S.; lawyer; Sec. Real 
Estate Trust Co.; Pres. Law Academy of Phila., 1881. 

WILLIAM WAGENER PORTER, A.B., A.M. Moderator; Ivy Orator; lawyer; 
Judge, Superior Ct. of Penna. 

JOHN WILLIAM TOWNSEND, A.B., A.M. Moderator; Soph. Decl. prize; 
Philo Debate prize; Vice- Pres. Cambria Steel Works; member Univer- 
sity Club, Union League, Rittenhouse Club, Merion C. C., Historical 
Society of Penna., Academy of Pol. and Soc. Sc. 

CLASS OF 1876 

*HENRY RUSH BIDDLE (A.B., College of N. J.). $. K. S. 
*CHARLES PENROSE BLIGHT, A.B., A.M. A. ^.; lawyer. 
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN BULLITT, A.B. A. .; Moderator; editor-in-chief of 

University Magazine; Sen. Pres.; lawyer; Vice-Pres. Norfolk & Western 

Ry. 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER DICK (Sci.). A. .; stock broker; banker. 
*W ALTER ALLEN FELLOWS (Cert, of Prof.). "Spoon-man." 
*FREDERICK AUGUSTUS GENTH, JR., B.S., M.S. Chemist; real estate agent; 

contributor to scientific journals. 
EDMUND GRAFF HAMERSLY (Sci.). Lawyer. 
HARRY HUNTER SMITH HANDY (Cert, of Prof.). Civil engineer. 
EDWARD HAZLEHURST (Sci.). A. .; architect. 
FRANK WEST IREDELL, B.S. Ivy Orator; mining engineer. 
WILLIAM LUDWIG KNEEDLER (M.D., Jeff. Med. Coll.). A. .; physician; 

Surgeon U. S. A. 
*LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., A.B., A.M. Moderator; lawyer; member Historical 

Society of Penna.; author of historical legal studies 
FREDERIC VOGEL LITTLE (Sci.). Insurance agent. 
*FRANK HAMILTON MAGEE, B.S., LL.B. Lawyer. 
JOHN JAY JOYCE MOORE, A.B., A.M. P. E. clergyman. 
*WILLIAM HENRY PATTERSON, A.B. <i>. K. S. ; Class Historian; lawyer; merchant. 
ALFRED PEARCE (Cert, of Pro.). Merchant; member Historical Society of 

Penna. 

WILLIAM MCCLEERY POTTS, B.S. Mining engineer. 
*ROBERT PATTERSON ROBINS, A.B., A.M., M.D. Z. .; editor of Univ. Mag.; 

physician; Fellow College of Physicians; member Phila. County Medical 

Society, Penna. State Med. Soc., Historical Society of Penna. and Virginia; 

Surg. 2d Reg. Pa. N. G.; author of historical works. 
WILLIAM LAWRENCE SAUNDERS, B.S., D.Sci. Moderator; Pres. of Ingersoll- 

Rand Co. ; civil engineer. 

WILLIAM FERRIS SELLERS, B.S. With Edgemoor Iron Co. 
HARRY CAVALIER SMITH (Sci.). Lawyer. 

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CLASS OF 1877 

FELIX ARIEL BOERICKE (Sci.). Mining engineer and Homeopathic pharmacist. 
JAMES BOND, B.S. 3>. K. S.; civil engineer with P. R. R. in 1881 ; since then a 

manufacturer. 

*JOHN MARIE CH APRON (Arts). 
WALTER Cox, A.B., A.M. *. K. s. 
MATTHEW CRESSWELL, JR. (Sci.). With an oil company. 
CHARLES AITKEN CURRIE, A.B., A.M., M.D. A. .; surgeon. 
EDGAR DUDLEY F ARIES (Arts). Lawyer. 
WALTER LOWRIE FINLEY (Sci.) S. X.; Col. U. S. Army. 
HENRY LAUSSAT GEYELIN, A.B., A.M., LL.B. $. K. S.; lawyer; Pres. of A. 

A., U. of P.; Intercoll. Champ, in high jumps, '77; Pres. of Law 

Acad., Phila., 1883; Treas. of Lincohi Institute; trustee, Drexel Institute. 
JOSIAH SETTLE GRAVES (Cert, of Profic.). 
JOHN PRICE CROZER GRIFFITH, A.B., Ph.D., M.D. 3>. B. K.; A. *.; physician; 

allied with many hospitals and medical societies; member of Academy 

Natural Sciences; contributor to medical journals. Fell. Coll. Phys. 
WALTER HORSTMANN (Sci.). Mfr.; member Franklin Institute; Penna. 

Historical Society; Academy of Fine Arts. 
*CHARLES BENJAMIN HOWELL, B.S. $. K. S.; lawyer. 
*CHARLES IRVIN JUNKIN, A.B. Moderator; editor of Univ. Mag.; lawyer; 

Presbyterian clergyman. 
HOWARD ATWOOD KELLY, A.B., M.D., LL.D. (Aberdeen University). Z. .; 

physician; Prof. Gynecology in Johns Hopkins. 
ERNEST LAW, A.B. A. $.; Class President; merchant. 
FRANCIS ALBERT LEWIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Junior Declam. prize; Ivy 

Orator; Meredith Law prize; editor Smith's Leading Cases-, Moderator; 

lawyer; editor of legal books. 
HERMANN ADALBERT LEWIS, B.S. Banker. 
JOHN MEILEY, JR. (Arts). $. K. S.; lawyer. 
WILLIAM WHITNEY MUNROE (Arts). 

*JOHN NEILL, JR., A.B., A.M. A. *.; Treas. Phila. Warehouse Co.; Class His- 
torian; founder of University Club of Phila. 
THOMAS RUNDLE NEILSON, A.B., A.M., M.D. Z. .; physician; Fellow College 

of Physicians, Phila.; surgeon at Episcopal Hospital 
CLEMENT BUCKLEY NEWBOLD, A.B. Banker and broker. 
GEORGE STANLEY PHILLER, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Moderator; *. K. S.; 

lawyer; member Historical Society, Phila. 

*JAMES BOYD RISK, M.D., '79 (A.B., A.M., Lafayette). Physician. 
THOMAS ROBINS, A.B., A.M. Z. *.; lawyer; Senior Eng. prize. 
CLAES AUGUST OSCAR ROSELL, A.B., A.M. Prize winner in Latin and Philos. 
HORACE WELLS SELLERS, B.S. Connected with Wm Sellers & Co.; architect; 

member Pa. Soc. Sons Revolution. 

HOWARD SELLERS, B.S. Connected with Wm. Sellers & Co., Phila. 
ARTHUR WHITCOMB SHEAFER, B.S. Mining engineer and geologist. 
WILLIAM KILGORE SINCLAIR (Sci.). 

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*JAMES RUNDLE SMITH (Arts). Banker; member of Franklin Institute. 
*EDMUND RICHARDS TATHAM (Arts). 
HUGH LAUSSAT WILLOUGHBY (Sci.). *. K. 2. ; Intercoll. Champ, running broad 

jump in 1876. 
"JOSEPH WARNER YARDLEY, A.B. S. X.; "Spoon-man;" valedictorian; the 

Yardley Prize in Social Science was founded in his memory. 

CLASS OF 1878 

WILLIAM MURPHY BENERMAN (Sci.). Petroleum and stock broker. 
RUFUS HOWARD BENT, A.B. Presbyterian clergyman. 
*WILLIAM PRATT BREED, JR., A.B. Moderator; <l>. K. *.; Presbyterian 

clergyman. 

GEORGE ETHAN BROOKS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Lawyer. 
WASHINGTON ATLEE BURPEE (Arts). In seed business; has written treatises 

on agricultural subjects. 
LAURIN WHITING BURTON (Sci.). 
JOHN PRICE CROZER (Sci.). Treasurer. 
GEORGE CUTHBERT GILLESPIE (Sci.). A. i>.; member Historical Society Penna. 

and Penna. Sons of Rev.; insurance broker. 
WILLIAM HENRY GRANT (Arts), (Cert, of Prone.). Banker; engaged in lumber 

business. 
CLIFFORD PREVOST GRAYSON (Sci.). Studied art in Paris; artist; awarded 

gold medal by Penna. Acad. Fine Arts for best figure painting, 1887. 
FREDERICK FRALEY HALLOWELL (Arts). Lawyer. 
CHARLES PHILIP HENRY, A.B., A.M., M.D. Physician at Girard College; 

Asst. Surgeon in U. S. N.; prize winner at College in English, Latin and 

Philosophy. 

*JosiAH OGDEN HOFFMAN, A.B. In life insurance business. 
WILLIAM ARCHER IRVING (Sci.). Manufacturer; director of 1st Nat. Bank in 

Chester, Pa. 

JOSEPH JONES KNOWLES, A.B. 
HORACE COOPER LEX (Arts). Merchant. 

JOSHUA BERTRAM LIPPINCOTT, A.B. Publisher; Hist. Soc. of Penna. 
WILLIAM KILBRETH LOWREY (A.B., LL.B., Columbia). Lawyer. 
EDWARD GARRETT McCoLLiN, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Moderator; *. K. *.; 

lawyer; musical composer; editor of Univ. Mag.-, author music of "Ben 

Franklin" and "The Pennsylvania Girl." 

*EDWARD SHIPPEN MC!LVAINE, M.D. (Arts). Moderator; physician. 
SAMUEL AUGUSTUS MARTIN (Sci.). Testing engines in Midvale Steel Works; 

26. Lieut. 1st Reg. N. G. P. 

THOMAS BARCLAY PRICHETT, A.B., A.M. Architect. 
ISAAC SCOTT SMYTH, JR., A.B., A.M. Merchant. 

CLASS OF 1879 

WILLIAM EASTERLY ASHTON, M.D., LL.D. (Ursinus Coll.). Physician; Prof. 
Gynaecol., Medico-Chirurgical College, Phila.; author. 

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WILLIAM BOWEN BOULTON, A.B. <. K. S.; engaged in shipping commission 

business. 

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT BRITTON, A.B. 4>. K. S.; merchant. 
JOHN DOUGLASS BROWN, JR., A.B., A.M., LL.B. <. K. ^.; Class Prophet; 

lawyer; member Historical Society Penna.; Society of Colonial Wars; 

Penna. Society Sons Revolution. 

*BENJAMIN BARTIS COMEGYS, A.B., A.M. Asst. cashier Phila. Nat. Bank. 
HENRY TAYLOR DECHERT, A.B., A.M., LL.B. A. >.; Class Orator; lawyer; 

Pres. Law Academy, Phila., 1885; Penna. Soc. Sons Revolution. 
GEORGE STUART FULLERTON, A.B., A.M., B.D. (Yale). Awarded Jun. Philos. 

prize; Class Poet; P. E. clergyman; Prof. Philos. and Vice-Provost, 

Univ. of Pa.; Prof. Psychology, Columbia University; member American 

Philosophical Society; author. 
JOHN MARSHALL GEST, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Moderator; <t>. K. S.; $. B. K.; 

Spoon-man; Class Pres.; Latin salutatorian; Jun. Greek, Sen. Greek 

and Sen. Latin prizes; lawyer; Judge Orphans' Court, Phila.; member 

Historical Society Penna. 
*JOHN ALOYSIUS GILTINAN (Arts). Lawyer. 
*GEORGE WOOD HUNT, A.B., A.M. A. .; in coal business. 
HENRY SCOTT JEFFERYS, A.B., A.M. P. E. clergyman. 
WILLIAM MCELROY (Arts). Dry goods business; reporter. 
EMLEN HARE MILLER, A.B., LL.B. Teacher; clerk; lawyer. 
RICHARD MONTGOMERY, A.B., A.M. <t. K. ^.; Presby. clergyman. 
ARTHUR EMLEN NEWBOLD (Arts). Z. ^.; banker and stock broker. 
*CHARLES WORDSWORTH NEVIN, A.B. Journalist; Presby. clergyman; Com- 
mencement Orator. 
HENRY SARGENT PRENTISS NICHOLS, A.B. Moderator; i>. B. K.; lawyer; 

member Historical Society Penna. 

*CHARLES HENRY PAGE (T.S.S.). Z. *.; stock broker; member Franklin Sci. Soc. 
*CHARLES SANTEE PAULY, A.B., A.M. Tutor. 
ALEXANDER ADEN POWELL, JR., A.B., A.M. Teacher; journalist. 
EDMUND ELLIOTT READ, A.B. Awarded Henry Reed prize; lawyer. 
GEORGE WOOD BISSELL ROBERTS, A.B., A.M. Moderator; Z. ^.; awarded 

Joseph W. Yardley Memorial prize; merchant. 
WILLIAM MOORE STEWART, JR., A.B., A.M., LL.B. <!>. K. S.; lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1880 

HARRY CLIFTON ADAMS, A.B., A.M. Awarded Joseph W. Yardley Memorial 

prize. 
MORRIS REX BOCKIUS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. . K. S.; lawyer; member Union 

League. 

HENRY HOUSTON BONNELL, A.B. , A.M. 3>. K. .; Class Prophet; "Spoon- 
man"; publisher; trustee. 

HILARY MISSIMER CHRISTIAN, M.D. Class Historian; physician. 
*WILLIAM DWIGHT CHURCH (T.S.S.). A. .; analyt. chemist. 
*JOHN TRAVIS COCHRAN, A.B. A. ^. 

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WILLIAM PURVES GEST, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Moderator; <. K. S.; $. B. K.; 

Alumni Senior Latin prize; Ivy Orator; editor Univ. Magazine; lawyer; 

member Hist. Soc. Penna. 
JOHN ARTHUR HENRY (T.S.S.). Clerk. 

*GEORGE JUNKIN, JR., A.B. Moderator; editor Univ. Magazine. 
ELIHU SPENCER MILLER (Arts). Lawyer; member Historical Soc. Penna.; 

Penna. Soc. Sons Revolution. 

HUSTON HAMMIL MILLIGAN, A.B., A.M. Merchant tailor. 
ERSKINE NEIDE, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer; auditor. 

JOHN PEROT, A.B., A.M. Teacher; merchant; member Penna. Hist. Soc. 
GEORGE READ SAVAGE (Arts). P. E. clergyman. 
THEODORE EMANUEL SCHMAUK, A.B. 4>. B. K.; awarded Philo Sen. prize for 

best original essay; Jun. Philos. prize; Henry Reed prize; valedictorian; 

Luth. clergyman; author. 
JAMES BURR SHREVE (Arts). A. . 
JOHN REED SMUCKER, A.B. Merchant. 
CHARLES WADSWORTH, JR., A.B., A.M., B.D. (Yale). Moderator; $. K. S.; 

editor of old Phila. Magazine; 1st prize essayist; 1st prize debater; Class 

Poet; Presbyterian cleigyman; member Penna. Soc. Sons. Rev. 



CLASS OF 1881 

ELLIS AMES BALLARD, A.B., LL.B. Z. ^.; awarded Sharswood prize at gradua- 
tion in Law; lawyer; member Union League, Phila. 
*Louis CORNETTE BRASTOW, JR. (Deceased during Junior membership.) 

ELIHU SPENCER BLIGHT, A.B. A. .; coal merchant. 

*WILLIAM ALLISON COCHRAN, A.B. A. <$.; <. B. K.; Junior Philos. prize; 
banker. 

JOHN FRANCIS FOULKE, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer. 

CALEB FELLOWES Fox (T.S.S.). Z. *.; stock broker. 

WILLIAM HENRY Fox, A.B., LL.B. $. K. *.; lawyer; journalist; member 
Penna. Soc. Sons Revolution. 

GEORGE HOWARD FREEDLEY, A.B., A.M. Moderator; marble and granite 

business. 
*GEORGE HERMAN GROSS, A.B., LL.B. *. K. .; Henry Reed prize; lawyer. 

WILLIS EDWARD HALL, B.S., M.E. Mechanical engineer; member Hist. Soc. 
Penna.; contributor to technical journals. 

PERCIVAL SMITH HILL (Arts). Manufacturer. 

SAMUEL JAMISON, B.S. 

HERMANN AUGUSTUS KELLER, B.S. Metallurgist; contributor to technical 

journals. 
"JOHN EATON LECONTE, A.B. Lawyer. 

SEVERO MALLET-PREVOST, B.S. Moderator; Class Day Orator; Com- 
mencement Orator; civil engineer; lawyer since 1885. 

ROBERT KENNEDY MATLOCK, JR., A.B. Class Historian; engineer. 

DAVID MILNE, A.B., A.M., Ph.B. Textile mfr.; member Hist. Soc. Penna. 

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CLIFFORD PEMBERTON, JR., A.B. Joseph W. Yardley prize; real estate business. 
ELI KIRK PRICE, JR., A.B. , LL.B. Lawyer; member Hist. Soc. Pa.; American 

Academy Political and Social Science. 
*JAMES HAMILTON ROBINS, A.B. Moderator; clerk. 
*WILLIAM THOMAS ROBINSON, B.S.; Z. .; Spoon-man; member Penna. Soc. 

Sons Rev. 
FELIX EMMANUEL SCHELLING, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., LL.B. 

i>. K. *.; 4>. B. K.; Class Poet; lawyer; John Welsh Centennial Prof. 

Hist, and Eng. Lit. at Univ. of Penna.; author of standard works of 

Eng. liter. 

EVERSLEY HAYNES THOMAS (Arts). Mfrs. agt., bldg. material. 
CHARLES Loss THOMPSON (Arts). Z. ^.; sea captain. 
WILLIAM CROWELL WATT, A.B. A. $.; clerk. 
CHARLES MEIGS WILSON (M.D., Jefferson Med. Coll.). A. *.; physician; 

contributor to medical journals. 

CLASS OF 1882 

HERMAN BRYDEN ALLYN, A.B., M.D. Physician; editor; author. 
*CHARLES WARDELL BROWN, B.S. 3>. K. *. 
*FRANK HALLETT DESILVER (Cert, of Profic.). 
THOMAS DICKSON FINLETTER, A.B. S. K. ^.; editor Univ. Magazine; Class 

Historian; lawyer; Asst. District Atty., Penna. 
EDWARD BROWN Fox (T.S.S.). Decl. prize. 
*HENRY ABBOTT FULLER, A.B. Bond broker. 
ALEXANDER JAMES DERBYSHIRE HAUPT, A.B. Luth. clergyman. 
WILLIAM MACPHERSON HORNOR, A.B., LL.B. 3>. K. ^.; lawyer; Penna. 

Society Sons Rev.; Military Order Loyal Legion U. S. 

CHARLES EDWARD INGERSOLL, A.B. Lawyer; U. S. Appraiser Port of Phila. 
HENRY McKEAN INGERSOLL, A.B. Farmer. 
*GEORGE EDWARD KRAUTH, A.B., A.M. Teacher. 
*JOSEPH CAMPBELL LANCASTER, A.B., LL.B. A. $.; editor Univ. Magazine; 

lawyer. 
*EDWIN FUSSELL LOTT, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; first prize for debate in Philo, 

1881-82; Class Orator; teacher; lawyer. 

JAMES FRANKLIN MCFADDEN, B.S. Cotton merchant; Capt. 1st City Troop. 
GEORGE LEWIS PLITT, A.B., A.M. Alumni Sen. Latin prize; teacher. 
GUSTAVUS REMAK, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; Z. .; editor Univ. Magazine; 

lawyer. 

*STEPHEN DECATUR SMITH (Arts). Ironmaster; musical composition pub- 
lisher. 

* WILLIAM WATMOUGH THAYER (Arts). Civil engineer. 
GUY COMFORT WALRAVEN, B.S. Merchant. 

THOMPSON SEISER WESTCOTT, A.B., M.D. Moderator; <. K. .; $. B. K.; 
editor Univ. Magazine; Class Prophet; Latin salutatorian; physician; 
Prof. U. of P. Medical School. 
ISAAC KEIL WISMER, A.B. Luth. clergyman. 
*SAMUEL BROWN WYLIE, A.B., A.M. Sen. English prize; teacher. 

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CLASS OF 1883 

CHARLES YOUNG AUDENRIED, A.B., LL.B. Awarded Alumni Sen. Latin 

prize; editor Univ. Magazine; lawyer; Judge Common Pleas Ct., 

Phila. 

THOMAS RIDGWAY BARKER, M.D. (Jefferson Med. Coll.). Physician. 
CHARLES OSCAR BEASELEY, A.B., LL.B. Shared Junior Philos. prize; won 

Henry Reed prize; lawyer; director Public Schools, Phila; member 

Phila. Select Council, 1889-93. 

LOGAN MCKNIGHT BULLITT, A.B. Moderator; editor Univ. Magazine; lawyer. 
CHARLES WALTS BURR, B.S., M.D. Spoon-man; physician; alienist; Philo 

Oratory prize; Prof. Med. Sch. Univ. of Penna. 
JOHN FLEMING CARSON (Arts). Presbyterian clergyman; editor. 
EDWARD POTTS CHEYNEY, A.B., A.M., B.F., LL.D. S>. B. K.; S. <i>. S.; 

Junior Math, prize; hon. mention Joseph W. Yardley prize; member 

Hist. Soc. Penna.; Prof, of European History, U. of P.; author of 

standard text books; Philo Debate prize. 
*HOWARD CRAMP (Arts). 4>. K. S.; brass and bronze founder. 
WILLIAM HOWARD FALKNER, A.B. A. <.; 4>. B. K.; Class Orator; teacher; 

lawyer; P. E. clergyman; Philo Essay prize. 
EDMUND MORRIS FERGUSSON, A.B., A.M. <. B. K.; Philo prize for oration; 

editor Univ. Magazine; Presbyterian clergyman; editor. 
*EDWARD GRIER FULLERTON, A.B., A.M. D.D. (Lafayette), Ph.D. (Yale). 

Class Poet; Congl. clergyman. 
FRANK LYNWOOD GARRISON (Cert, of Prone.). Z. ^.; mining engineer; member 

Academy Natural Sciences, Phila. ; Franklin Institute, Phila. ; contributor 

to technical journals. 

JAMES POWERS HAWKES, A.B., A.M. 4. r. A.; P. E. clergyman. 
JAMES ARTHUR HEATON, A.B. Coal comm. merchant. 
ARTHUR WASHINGTON HESS, A.B. 3>. r. A.; P. E. clergyman. 
*CHARLES BURR KELLOGG (Arts). A. <.; clerk; asst. editor. 
JOHN ROBERT MOSES, A.B., A.M. Shared Jun. Philo prize; editor University 

Magazine; Class Prophet; teacher; P. E. clergyman. 
GEORGE WASHINGTON NORRIS (Arts). Lawyer. 
HOWARD WURTS PAGE, A.B., A.M., LL.B. $. B. K.; Joseph W. Yardley 

Mem. prize; lawyer. 
HENRY RANKIN POORE (Cert, of Prone.). A. <.; artist; received grand prize 

of $2,000 from American Art Assoc., N. Y. City, for picture entitled "The 
Night of the Nativity." 

JOHN WILLIAM SAVAGE (Arts). Moderator; Class Pres.; lawyer. 
FRANCIS EDWARD SMILEY, A.B., A.M. Moderator; Philo Debate prize; 

editor Univ. Magazine; Presby. clergyman; evangelist. 
HARRISON SMITH, JR. <i>. K. S.; brokerage business. 
ALPHEUS WALDO STEVENSON, A.B. Journalist; editor and publisher The 

Christian State; Sec. Christian Ass'n Univ. of Penna. to date. 
HENRY CHAPMAN THOMPSON, LL.B. $. K. *.; lawyer. 



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CLASS OF 1884 

JOHN STOKES ADAMS, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; $. K. *.; 3>. B. K.; first 

prize Oratory in Philo; Fr. Math, prize; Jun. Math, prize; editor Univ. 

Magazine; Class Orator; editor Class Record; lawyer; member Hist. 

Soc. Penna.; U. of P. Law Faculty; author of works on mining law. 
GEORGE FALES BAKER, B.S., M.D. Physician; mem. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila.; 

life mem. Hist. Soc. Penna. 
CALDWELL KEPPELE BIDDLE, A.B., LL.B. A. ^.; lawyer; Col. 3d Regt., 

N. G. P.; mem. Franklin Institute; Penna. Soc. Sons Rev. 
WILLIAM HENRY BOWER, B.S., P.C. *. K. *.; with Henry Bower Chem. Co. 
THOMAS COOKE. 

JOHN PUSEY CROASDALE, A.B., LL.B. 3>. K. ^.; Class Presenter; lawyer. 
MORRIS DALLETT, A.B., LL.B. <i>. K. ^.; Class Historian; lawyer; Judge of 

Orphans' Court, Phila. 

JOHN AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HAAS, A.B., A.M., B.D. Luth. clergyman; Presi- 
dent of Muhlenberg College. 

WILFORD LAWRENCE HOOPES, B.S., A.B. (Harvard). A. T. ft.; P. E. clergyman. 
CLEMENS CATESBY JONES, B.S. <. K. S.; Ivy Orator; chemist; contributor 

to technical journals; engineer. 
FRANK LAMBADER, JR., LL.B., Ph.D. (Cert, of Prone, in T. S. S.). Moderator; 

editor Univ. Magazine; lawyer; dir. Public Schools, Phila.; clergyman; 

connected with International Correspondence Schools at Scranton. 
*CHARLES HINKLE MARPLE, A.B., LL.B. (Absent during 1882-83.) Lawyer, 

Omaha. 

JOHN CARNAHAN MILLIGAN (Arts). Lawyer. 

ALLEN CARRINGTON PRESCOTT, B.D. (Nashotah Theol. Sem.). P. E. clergyman. 
WATERS DEWEES ROBERTS, A.B., B.D. (Epis. Theol. Sch., Cambridge). Z. *.; 

first prize essay in Philo; shared Junior Philos. prize; P. E. clergyman. 
ELLIOT CRISSY SMITH. 
LEWIS LAWRENCE SMITH, A.B., A.M., LL.B. A. T. ft.; <i>. B. K.; Sharswood 

prize in Law; Class Pres.; lawyer; member Historical Soc. Penna. 
JAMES DALLAS STEELE, A.B., LL.B., A.M., B.D., Ph.D., D.D. Alumni Sen. 

Latin prize; editor Univ. Magazine; Presbyterian clergyman; educator; 

lawyer; <. A. $. 

*CLARENCE WILLS TAYLOR (Cert, of Study, '84). Moderator. 
MILTON COOPER WORK, A.B., LL.B. A. $.; lawyer; author of works on whist. 
JACOB MORISTZ ZOOK. Real estate broker. 

CLASS OF 1885 

"HARRISON WHITE BIDDLE, A.B. A. ^.; lawyer. 
GEORGE ROSENGARTEN BOWER, A.B. *. K. .; manufacturer. 
HENRY BELL BRYAN. P. E. clergyman. 
JAMES FRY BULLITT, A.B. Editor Univ. Magazine; Class Historian; lawyer; 

P. E. clergyman. 

MIERS BUSCH, Ph.B. Wholesale druggist; member Hist. Soc. Penna. 
WILLIAM WILSON CARLILE, Ph.B., LL.B. Lawyer. 

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*HOWARD LOWE CRESSWELL, A.B. Moderator; <l>. K. ^.; editor Univ. Maga- 
zine', manufacturer. 

ALLEN BROOKES CUTHBERT, B.S., C.E. Engineer in Altoona, Pa. 
VALENTINE SHERMAN DOEBLER, B.S., C.E. Engineer with Cambria Steel 

Co., Johnstown, Pa. 

SNOW NAUDAIN DUER, A.B., M.D. A. .; physician. 

JOHN STEPHENS DURHAM, B.S. Philo Oratory prize; U. S. Diplom. Service. 
ROLAND POST FALKNER, Ph.B., Ph.D. (Univ. of Halle). A.*.; teacher; pub- 
Usher; asst. supt. of U. S. Census. 
JOHN SIMPSON FERNIE (Cert, of Profic. in Wharton School). Moderator; 

Class Prophet; actor on English stage; Philo Debate prize. 
*LEONARD FINLETTER, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer; Asst. City Solicitor, Phila. 
EDWARD PINCKNEY GREENE (Arts). Marine insurance business, Montana. 
JAMES COLLINS JONES, Ph.B., LL.B. Moderator; A. T. &.; Commencement 

Orator; lawyer; mem. Hist. Soc. Penna.; member Union League. 
*CHARLES LESTER LEONARD, A.B., A.M., M.D. Physician. He died a martyr 

to his profession. 

*HENRY SPENCER LUCAS (Cert, of Profic. in Chem.). 
FRANCIS BENJAMIN MUHLENBERG. A. <i>.; bank clerk; member Penna. Soc. 

Sons of Rev. 

WILLIAM CARMALT SCULL. 
*GEORGE ARD SHOEMAKER (Arts). 
*CHARLES HOPKINS SMALL, B.S., M.E. $. K. *. 
*CHARLES IRWIN TRAVELLI (Wharton). 



CLASS OF 1886 

WALTER GIRVEN ALLISON (T.S.S.). 

THOMAS PASSMORE BERENS, M.D. Ophthalmologist; connected with various 

hospitals and medical societies; studied at Berlin. 
DAVID SANDS BROWN CHEW, A.B. 4>. K. S.; merchant; law student. 
GEORGE KINGSBURY FISCHER, B.S., M.E. A. <t>.; mech. engr.; editor Pennsyl- 

vanian; Class Poet, 1885; chief engr. Col. Iron Works, Denver, Col. 
WILLIAM WEST FRAZIER, 3D, A.B. Moderator; A. .; Class Historian; sugar 

refiner. 

WILLIAM THOMPSON GRAHAM (Arts). 
GEORGE QUINTARD HORWITZ, A.B., LL.B. A. $.; Chairman of Class Record 

Committee; lawyer. 

JOHN CHESTER HYDE, A.B., A.M. Baptist clergyman; missionary to Congo. 
EDWARD MILLER JEFFERYS, A.B., B.D., S.T.D. Moderator; *. K. *.; P. E. 

clergyman; rector at St. Peter's, Phila.; editor of Univ. Magazine and 

first edition of Pennsylvanian; Class Pres. Soph. year. 
WILBUR PADDOCK KLAPP, M.D. 

SAMUEL STRYKER KNEASS, A.B., M.D. Physician; resident Univ. Hospital. 
WILLIAM CAMPBELL POSEY, A.B., M.D. $. K. .; physician; resident Presb. 

Hospital; connected with various medical organizations; ophthalmologist. 

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HENRY BURNETT ROBB (HENRY ALEXANDER ROBB), B.S., LL.B. A. $>.; lawyer; 

Class Pres. Soph. year. 

"JACOB MARTIN ROMMEL, JR., A.B., LL.B. Lawyer. 
EDWIN JAQUETT SELLERS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. A. *.; Class Vice-Pres. Senior 

year; lawyer; mem. Hist. Soc. Penna.; mem. Penna. Soc. Sons of Rev. 
WYNDHAM HARVEY STOKES (T.S.S.). Civil eng.; lawyer; mem. Univ. Club. 
EARL THOMSON, B.S., C.E. Civil engineer; Class Poet. 

*CHARLES BAEDER WILLIAMS, A.B., M.D. A. $.; physician; resident Penna. 
Hospital. 

CLASS OF 1887 
*HENRY CLAY ADAMS, B.S., M.E. Moderator; mech. engr. at Cambria Iron 

Co., Johnstown, Pa.; Class Pres. Soph, year; Ivy Orator; editor of 

Univ. Magazine. 

*CHARLES Louis EUGENE AMET, B.S., C.E. Civil engineer. 
DAVID WERNER AMRAM, A.B., A.M., LL.B. Lawyer; author of works on 

Hebrew law and bankruptcy law; Prof, in Univ. of Penna. Law School. 
JOHN ASHHURST, A.B. Librarian at Phila. Free Library; member of Philo- 

biblon Club. 

H. CRAWFORD COATES, JR. (T.S.S.). Z. *.; architect. 
FREDERICK WILLIAM WILSON GRAHAM, A.B. A. $.; drug merchant. 
JAMES HAWORTH, A.B. Teacher; dealer in photographic supplies. 
CHRISTOPHER MAGEE, JR., A.B., LL.B. A. <.; lawyer. 
JAMES FRANCIS MAGEE, JR., B.S. A. T. .; merchant. 
WILLIAM BYRD PAGE, B.S., M.E. A. ^.; mech. engr. with P. R. R.; held 

world's high jump record 1887. 
GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER, A.B., LL.B., LL.D., D.C.L. (Univ. of South). 

<. B. K.; Z. ty.; lawyer; editor of Pennsylvanian and of Univ. Magazine; 

"Spoon-man" of class; valedictorian; Sharswood and Morris Law prizes; 

Biddle Professor of Law; trustee; mem. Penna. Soc. Sons of Revo.; pub- 
lished various legal works; editor of American Law Register and Review. 
FRANCIS JOHN PRYOR, JR., A.B. Shipping and forwarding clerk. 
*ROBERT BOWEN SALTER, A.B. Moderator; engaged in grain business; dealer 

in plumber's supplies. 
ANDRE WILLIAM SEGUIN, A.B. Moderator and awarded its prize for debate 

in 1886; Z. SF.; Government official in New Orleans; studied law at 

Tulane; lawyer. 

HENRY NAGLEE SMALTZ, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer; member Union League. 
RICHARD WILSON, M.D. Physician; resident at Penna. Hospital; editor of 

the Pennsylvanian', contributor to medical journals; Army surgeon. 
WILLIAM STETLER WRIGHT (Arts). A. T. fl.; lawyer. 

CLASS OF 1888 
LUCIEN HUGH ALEXANDER. Prominent in Univ. dramatics and athletics; 

lawyer. 

*FRAZER ASHHURST. Univ. Dramatics; mem. of Peary's Greenland Expedition, 
1891; mem. Penna. Soc. Sons of Revol. 

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JAMES CORNELL DIDDLE, JR. Editor of Pennsylvanian; Univ. Dramatics. 
GEORGE CLAY BOWKER, Ph.B., LL.B. B. 9. H.; lawyer. 
*GEORGE BRINTON (Sci. Sch.). 3>. K. S.; engaged in Bethlehem Iron Works; 

took part in University Dramatics. 

*JoHN WILLITS CAMPION. Editor Pennsylvanian; Junior Exhibition Speaker. 
HARRISON KOONS CANER, A.B. (Harvard, '89). 
*EUGENE DELANO CLEAVER, B.S., C.E. Civil engineer; mem. Franklin Inst., 

Phila. 
FREDERICK MERWIN IVES, B.S., C.E., M.D. *. K. *.; civil engineer; 

physician. 
THOMAS ATKINSON JENKINS, A.B. (Swarthmore), Ph.B. Clerk; Class Poet; 

Senior Engl. prize. 

*W ALTER BUDD KEEN, A.B. Manufacturer. 
EDWIN ROBERT KELLER, B.S., M.E. Instructor in mech. eng. 
WILLIAM KENDALL LEONARD. Bank teller; manufacturer. 
JAMES BARTON LONGACRE, A.B. . K. S.; clerk. 
WILLIAM WILSON LONGSTRETH, A.B. 
*EDWARD ALDEN MILLER, Ph.B. $. K. S.; journalist; city editor on Phila. 

Record, later with Phila. Press; proprietor and editor of Am. Spectator. 
HORACE CLARK RICHARDS, A.B., Ph.D. Moderator; 3>. B. K.; prize winner 

in Greek; Tyndale Fellowship in Physics; editor of Pennsylvanian; took 

part in Univ. dramatics; Prof, of Math. Physics, U. of P.; mem. Amer. 

Philos. Soc. 
*LAWRENCE SAVERY SMITH, A.B. , M.D. A. .; physician; resident at Penna. 

Hospital. 
JOHN DUNCAN ERNEST SPAETH, A.B. Editor of Pennsylvanian; Ivy Poet; 

teacher, Phila. Central High School; Professor in English at Princeton 

Univ. 

WILLIAM CANER WIEDERSHEIM, B.S. Z. ^.; patent solicitor. 
LIGHTNER WITMER, A.B., Ph.D. (Univ. of Leipzig, '92). Moderator and 

winner of prizes in various subjects; valedictorian; Philo Oratory prize 

and Essay prize; Professor of Psychology at Univ. of Penna; author. 
CHARLES STURGIS WOOD, Ph.B., LL.B. Lawyer; Asst. City Solicitor; Ivy 

Orator. 
MORTON BUELL YOUNG, A.B., LL.B. Awarded Philo prize for Oration, 1885; 

editor of Pennsylvanian and Univ. Magazine; lawyer; journalist. 



CLASS OF 1889 

CHARLES STIRLING BONSALL. *. K. Z.; manufacturer of rugs. 

GEORGE BROOKE, JR., Ph.B. Sec. E. & G. Brooke Iron Co., Birdsboro, Pa. 

CHARLES NEWTON CLEMENT BROWN, A.B., S.T.B., Gen. Theol. Sem., P. E. 

Ch. Moderator; P. E. clergyman; rector of Church of Ascension, 

Washington, D. C. 
FRANCIS MACOMB CRESSON, B.A. A. <;. engineer, Ardmore, Pa., Engineers' 

Club of Phila. 
CONWAY DILLINGHAM, A.B., LL.B. Prize winner; lawyer; director of schools 

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JOHN HARPER GIRVIN, M.D. A. T.; physician; mem. Academy of Surgery, 

etc.; University Club; Racquet Club; College of Physicians. 
TAMIO HAYASHI, Ph.B. Agent in Russo- Japan War. 
"CHARLES PETER BEAUCHAMP JEFFERYS, JR., Ph.B., B.D. Editor-in-Chief of 

Pennsylvanian; Berkeley Divinity School; Episcopal clergyman; author; 

composer. 

EDWARD CHRISTMAN KNIGHT, B.S. Engineer; later owner of Vancouver Lum- 
ber Co.; University Club; Germantown Cricket Club, etc. 
SAMUEL McCuNE LINDSAY, Ph.D. (Univ. of Halle), LL.D. B. 9. II.; Sociol- 
ogist and Philosopher; Comos Club, Washington, D. C.; Royal Econ. 

Society, etc. 
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN MENAH, M.D. 3>. X.; physician; Instructor Medico- 

Chi. College. 
DICKINSON SERGEANT MILLER, A.B., A.M. (Haivard), Ph.D. (Univ. of Halle). 

Moderator; Prof, of Philos., Bryn Mawr College, Pa.; Philo Debate prize. 
JAMES CLAYTON MITCHELL, A.B., S.T.B., B.D. Moderator; winner of prizes; 

P. E. clergyman; author. 
EDWARD WARLOCH MUMFORD, Ph.B. B. 9. n.; editor with Penna. Publishing 

Co.; Class President; editor of Pennsylvanian; author of books of verse. 
CHARLES PEABODY, A.B., Ph.D. 3>. B. K.; Archaeologist at Harvard; prize 

winner at college; College Orchestra. 
ELLISTON JOSEPH PEROT, A.B., A.M., B.D. 3>. K. 2.; Moderator; P. E. 

clergyman; rector at St. John's, Salem, N. J.; published sermons; Sons 

of Revol. 
WALTER PHILLIPS, B.S., M.E. Electrical engineer; Asst. Man., Westinghouse 

Air Brake Co. ; Devonshire Club, London. 
ALFRED NEWLIN SEAL, B.S., P.C., Ph.D. Prof, of Chem. and Physics, Girard 

College; mem. Franklin Institute and Browning Society, Phila. 
DANIEL BUSSIER SHUMWAY, B.S. 4>. A. 9.; Honor Man; Prof, of German Phil- 

ology, U. of P.; member of German societies and translator; Mantle 

Orator. 
JOHN LAMMEY STEWART, Ph.B. <. B. K.; Honor Man; Professor of Economics 

in Lehigh Univ.; mem. University Club, etc. 

*ROBERT STULB, B.S. Decorator; died in Quetta, India, Nov. 14, 1907. 
WILLIAM CUSACK SULLIVAN. 
WASHINGTON VAN DUSEN. 
CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, Ph.B., LL.B. One of the founders of the Red and 

Blue; lawyer; interested in various reform movements and legal societies. 
WILLIAM MOODIE YEOMANS, A.B. (Lafayette). X. <.; Presby. minister; 

pastor of various churches in New York State. 

CLASS OF 1890 

*WILLIAM WILSON BARR, JR. Winner of prizes in the classics. 
WILLIAM HERBERT BURK, A.B., B.D. Moderator; P. E. clergyman; 
Honor Man; rector of various churches; founder Washington Memorial 
Chapel, Valley Forge; mem. Hist. Soc. Penna. 

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CHESTER NYE FARE, JR., B.S., LL.B. *. T.; lawyer; instructor, Central High 
School; Asst. City Solicitor; 1st Asst. Dist. Atty., Phila.; editor of Penn- 
sylvanian. 

ROBERT ISAACS GAMON, A.B., A.M., D.D. (Temple Univ.). Presby. minis- 
ter; charge at Knoxville, Tenn. 
*BENJAMIN LEAS CROZER GRIFFITH. A. .; importer. 
*WILLIAM GUY BRYAN HARLAND, M.D. Physician in Germantown. 

RUDOLPH HOWARD KLAUDER, B.S. 

MANZO KUSHIDA, Ph.B. Banker at Folais, Japan; Ivy Orator; Honor Man; 
Philo Essay prize and Debate prize. 

WILLIAM HENRY LOYD, JR., A.B., A.M., LL.B., M.A. *. K. *.; lawyer; 
Asst. Prof, of Law, Univ. of Pa.; mem. University Club; prize winner 
in English; mem. Hist. Soc. Pa.; author on legal subjects. 

WILLIAM RUFUS NICHOLSON, Ph.B., M.D. $. K. ^.; <J>. K. \F.; physician; con- 
tributed to medical literature; Univ. Club; Am. Med. Assn. 

HUGH WALKER OGDEN, A.B., A.M., LL.B. (Harvard). 3>. B. K.; 3>. A. <.; 
<E>. K. ^.; Moderator; winner of scholastic prizes and honors; lawyer; 
Instructor in U. of P.; member of many legal and other associations; 
Editor-in-Chief Howard Law Review; Philo Oratory prize. 

JOSIAH HARMAR PENNIMAN, A.B., Ph.D., LL.D. <. B. K.; <. K. ^.; Moderator; 
Dean of College; Vice-Provost U. of P.; author and editor of books on 
English Literature; Univ. Club; Am. Phil. Soc., etc. 

HOLDEN BOVEE SCHERMERHORN, Ph.B., LL.B. <. K. &.; lawyer; lecturer at 

Temple Univ., Phila. 
*JOHN GILBERT STODDART, Ph.B. <. K. 2.; Honor Man. 

ROBERT REINECK TRUITT, A.B. (A.M., Harvard). Teacher; publisher; manu- 
facturer surg. instruments. 

CLASS OF 1891 

HENRY INGERSOLL BROWN. Z. SF.; insurance broker. 

DANIEL BELL CUMMINS CATHERWOOD. Honor Man. 

SAMUEL RAKESTRAW COLLADAY, A.B., B.D. Moderator; A. T.; $. B. K.; 

P. E. clergyman. 

*ERSKINE HAZARD DICKSON, A.B., LL.B. 4>. B. K.; Latin salutatorian; lawyer. 
JAMES MACINTOSH LONGSTRETH ECKARD, A.B. <i>. K. S.; Presby. clergyman. 
JOHN JAY LAFAYETTE HOUSTON, B.S., C.E. $. K. ^.; civil engineer; instructor 

in Field Work classes. 
HISAYA IWASAKI, Ph.B. Ship-builder. 

STACY WOODMAN KAPP, B.S., C.E. Connected with Lehigh Valley Railroad. 
WILLIAM GRAY KNOWLES, Ph.B., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer; Asst. City 

Solicitor. 

CHARLES RIDGELY LEE, Ph.B. . K. .; insurance broker; Honor Man. 
GEORGE FRANCIS LEVAN, A.B., M.D. (Medico-Chi.). Physician. 
ALFRED MEYER LIVERIGHT, A.B. Lawyer, Clear-field, Pa. 
GEORGE INGALLS McLEOD, JR., M.D. Z. .; physician. 
WARREN K. MOOREHEAD. 

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*ALEXANDER WILSON NORRIS, JR. Z. ^.; lawyer. 
FAMES DEWOLF PERRY, JR., A.B., S.T.D. Moderator; Bishop of Rhode 

Island; Philo valedictorian and winner of Oratory prize. 
THOMAS HARRIS POWERS, A.B. A. . 

WILMER HERSHEY RIGHTER, A.B. Publisher; mfr. of lumber; Honor Man. 
GEORGE HUGHES SMITH, Ph.B., LL.B. Vice-President of Class. 
CORNELIUS WEYGANDT, A.B., Ph.D. 3>. B. K.; Professor of Eng. Lit., U. of P.; 

newspaper reporter and editor; author. 
*JOHN ROBERT WHITE, JR. A. T. 

CLASS OF 1892 

LEON MASTBAUM SCHWARZ BOWERS, B.S., LL.B. 

JOSEPH ROBERTS CARPENTER, JR. 

EDWARD TAGGART CHILD, B.S. in Mech. Eng. 

CHARLES JAMES DOUGHERTY, B.S. A. T.; electrical engineer with Cramp Ship- 
building Co.; member of Univ. Club. 

WILLIAM DUANE, A.B., A.M. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Berlin). $. K. S.; $. B. K.; 
Prof, of Physics, Univ. of Col.; Research Attache" in Radium Labora- 
tory, Paris, France; member of various scientific societies; valedictorian. 

*PERCIVAL VAISEY FRENCH, B.S. 

VIVIAN FRANK GABLE, Ph.B., LL.B, Lawyer. 

EDWIN STAUFFER GAULT. 

FRANK BACON HANCOCK, B.S., M.D. Physician. 

ALBERT LAWRENCE HARRIS, B.S. 

CARL FREDERICK HAUSSMANN, JR., A.B. 

CHARLES TRUMBULL LEE, B.S. 
*ARCHIBALD MCCULLAGH, JR., A.B. 

CLIFTON MALONEY, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; attorney-at-law. 

WILLIAM STUART MORRIS, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; attorney-at-law. 

JAY BIRD MOYER, B.S., Ph.D. Dental supplies. 

MATTHEW PATTON, A.B. Presbyterian clergyman. 

ULYSSES SIMPSON SCHAUL, A.B. J>. B. K.; Moderator; Presby. minister; 
winner of prizes at college. 

FRANK EARLE SCHERMERHORN, Ph.B., LL.B. 

WILLIAM REESE SCOTT, JR., A.B. 

EDGAR ARTHUR SINGER, JR., B.S., Ph.D. $. B. K.; Prof, of Philosophy at 
Univ. of Penna.; Philo Debate prize. 

CLARENCE RUSSELL WILLIAMS, A.B., A.M. (Princeton). 

CLASS OF 1893 

EDWIN SALISBURY CLARK, A.B. Lawyer, Bay City, Mich.; Honor Man. 
WALTER ISAAC COOPER, B.S. *. A. e. 

ANDREW WRIGHT CRAWFORD, A.B., LL.B. *. r. A.; <. B. K.; attorney-at-law. 
*HOWARD HARLAN DICKEY. Pres. Savings Bank, Cumberland, Md.; Pres. 

U. S. Rail Co.; mem. of Univ. Club. 
RAYMOND RENAUD DONGES. Attorney-at-law. 

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EDWARD JOHN JOSEPH DOONER, A.B. Connected with Dooner's Hotel, Phila- 
delphia. 

FRANKLIN SPENCER EDMONDS, Ph.B. B. 0. II.; winner of Philo Debate prize; 
Oratory prize; Asst. Prof, of Political Sci. in Central High School, 
Phila. ; attorney-at-law; mem. Hist. Soc. Penna., etc. 
THOMAS SOVEREIGN GATES, Ph.B., LL.B. Banker; President of Phila. Trust 

Co. 
GEORGE HERVEY HALLETT, A.M., Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics at Univ. 

of Penna.; contributor to scientific literature. 
WILLIAM HENRY HANSELL, JR. 4>. K. .; inventor of various improvements 

in railway springs. 

*FRANCIS CHAMBERS HARRIS, B.S. Insurance broker. 
*GEORGE BICKLEY HOUSEMAN, B.S. 2. A. S.; Prof, of Eng. in Denver Univ., 

Col. 
ARTHUR WELLESLEY HOWES, A.B. $. B. K.; Prof, of Latin and Greek, Central 

High School, Phila.; mem. Univ. Club. 
GEORGE JOHNSON, A.B. $. B. K.; Prof, of Theology, Lincoln Univ., Pa.; winner 

of Scholastic prizes; winner of Philo Essay prize. 
SAMUEL MURDOCH KENDRICK, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer; Asst. Dist. 

Atty.; mem. Univ. Club. 
FRANCIS HERBERT LEE, A.B. $. B. K.; <. K. *. ; Principal of the Phillips Brooks 

School, Phila. ; Prof. Latin and Greek at Temple Univ. and Central High 

School; stock broker; winner Scholastic prizes. 
CLARENCE STANLEY MC!NTIRE, B.S., Ph.D.; B. 0. n.; Prof. Eng. Language at 

Temple Coll.; mem. Hist. Soc. Penna. 
WILLIAM CLARK MCKNIGHT. Presby. clergyman. 
JAMES CLARK MOORE, JR., B.S. 4>. A. 0.; real estate and stock broker; 

mem. Univ. Club, etc. 

JOHN NOLEN, Ph.B., A.M. Landscape architect; city planner; public lec- 
turer. 
HOWARD DEHAVEN Ross, Ph.B. Pres. of several realty companies; Pres. 

Del. Soc. Sons of Revol., etc.; Delaware State Senator; Wilmington City 

Treasurer; mem. Nat. Arts Club, etc. 
JOHN SCHWALM SCHAUL, M.D. Retired physician ; surgeon in Spanish- American 

War. 

GEORGE ALBERT SMYTH, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer. 
HENRY FIELD SMYTH, M.D. <. A. S.; physician with the Germantown 

Hospital. 

JUSTIN RALPH SYPHER, A.B. Moderator; insurance broker. 
STOYAN VASIL TSANOFF, Ph.B. Active in various reform movements in New 

York City. 
ROBERT NEWTON WILLSON, JR., A.B., M.D. *. T.; Moderator; physician; 

connected with various medical activities and author of many medical 

monographs; winner of Philo Oratory prize. 
FRANK POTTS WITMER, B.S., C.E. Instructor, U. of P.; engineer with the 

Phoenix Bridge Co. 
ERSKINE WRIGHT, A.B. 4>. A. 0.; *. B. K.; P. E. clergyman. 

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CLASS OF 1894 

GEORGE SHATTUCK BARROWS, M.E. SF. T. ; engineer for Welsbach Co. and 
U. G. I. of Phila.; inventor of gas appliances; contributor to technical 
journals; mem. of Univ. Club of Phila.; mem. Franklin Inst., etc.; 
Business Mgr. Pennsylvanian. 

JOHN CHRISTIAN BULLITT, JR., M.D. Physician. 

PAUL CHEYNEY, B.S., M.S. Hardware business; Priestley Club. 

GEORGE MORRISON COAXES, 3d, A.B., M.D. 3>. r. A. and A. M. n. ft.; phy- 
sician; allied with various medical organizations. 

*GEORGE DOUGLAS CODMAN, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer; $. A. 9.; Philo 
Debate prize. 

GEORGE J. Fox, B.S. 
*R. H. INNES, LL.B. Senior member law firm of Innes & Williams; University 

Club; Merion Cricket Club. 

'GILBERT STUART MOORE, JR., B.S., M.E. B. 6. n.; mem. Brd. of Govs.; 
Soc. Alumni. 

CHARLES LEO PARTRIDGE, B.S. Commissioner U. S. Interior Department; 
President Redland Water Co.; author of travel books. 

WILLIAM PEPPER, JR., A.B., M.D. Z. Mr.; Dean of University Medical Faculty; 
member of Pediatric Society, the Neurological Society and many other 
medical and fraternal organizations; author of med. wks. 

SAMUEL SWIFT, B.S. Art critic for the N. Y. Evening Mail. 

FRANCIS J. TUCKER, B.S., M.E. Connected with Cramp & Sons; $. A. 9.; 
Ensign and Chief Engineer Pa.'s Naval Militia. 



CLASS OF 1895 

*ROGER ASHHURST, A.B., LL.B. 3>. B. K.; lawyer. 

CRAIG ATMORE, B.S. $. A. 9.; Pres. of Atmore & Sons, manufacturers. 

EDMUND JAMES BURK, A.B. Moderator of Philo; P. E. clergyman; Ivy Poet. 

SPENCER COLE DICKSON, A.M. Moderator; Presb. clergyman in Blooms- 
burg, Pa.; editor of Pennsylvanian. 

JAMES HENRY FORRESTER, Ph.B. A. T.; lawyer; Judge, Christian Co., 111. 

Louis JAY GERSON, E.E. "Acacia;" manager and buyer for John Wanamaker, 
N. Y.; editor of Univ. Courier. 

JOHN F. GORMAN, LL.B. Lawyer. 

CHARLES MICHAEL JACOBS, A.B. Moderator; Lutheran minister in Allen- 
town, Pa.; assoc. edit, of Pennsylvanian. 

FLEMING JAMES, JR., A.M., Ph.D. <. r. A.; $. B. K.; P. E. clergyman, 
Lakewood, N. J. ; prizes in Latin and Greek. 

JOSEPH ALOYSIUS McKEON, Ph.B., LL.B. Attorney-at-Law. 

JOHN DOUGHTY McMuLLiN, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer. 

WILLIAM WHITE MONTGOMERY, A.B. Lawyer. 

WILLIAM ALBERT STEEL, B.S., M.D. Practising surgeon; Prof. Clinical Sur- 
gery at Temple Univ.; connected with many hospitals, etc.; Honor Man 
at college. 

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HOWARD ACKERMAN STOUT, B.S. in Arch. 

HENRY GAWTHROP S WAYNE. Lawyer; connected for a time with Wanamaker's; 
Philo-Zelo Debate. 

CLASS OF 1896 

ROBERT ROBINSON ADAMS, A.B. B. 6. H.; Methodist clergyman in Colo- 
rado Springs. 

ASTLEY PASTON COOPER ASHHURST, A.B., M.D. $. B. K.; S. A.; Moderator; 
physician; surgeon; Pres. Ashhurst Surgical Soc.; Instructor Med. 
Sch., Univ. of Pa.; Fellow of Phila. Coll. Physicians; contributor 
to medical works; Junior Latin prize; Honor Man; he is the third genera- 
tion of the Ashhurst family to be moderator of Philo. 

HENRY LEANDER BERNARDY, B.S., M.D. Physician. 

CHARLES FIELD, 3d, B.S. in Chem. 

CLARENCE A. HALL, B.S. in Chem. 

JOHN C. HINCKLEY, A.B., LL.B. A. T.; Moderator; lawyer; member of the 
Comm. to translate Andocides' "De Mysteriis," published by Philo in 
1896; member of Univ. Club, etc. 

HARRY H. JOHNSON, B.S. 

HENRY NORTON JUNE, B.S. in Arch. Moderator; architect in New York City. 

E. J. KUHNS, B.S. in Chem. 

BENJAMIN LAPisn, A.B. Methodist minister. 

WALTER CRISPIN LIPPINCOTT, A.M., M.D. *. B. K.; A. 8. A.; physician and 
surgeon in Seattle, Wash. 

FISHER CORLIES MORGAN. Z. *.; lawyer; member Penna. Soc. Sons of Revol. 

H. WARREN NICE. 

ARTHUR E. WEIL, A.B., LL.B. $. B. K.; Moderator; lawyer; editor 
of Amer. Law Register; editor Pennsylvanian; member of Univ. Club, 
Law Alumni Assoc., etc. 

JAMES H. YOUNG, LL.B. Attorney-at-Law. 



CLASS OF 1897 

HOWARD BECHTLE BREMER. <. K. . 

CLARENCE CRESSON BRINTON, A.B. Banker; Soc. of Alumni; Mil. Order of 
the Loyal Legion. 

SIGOURNEY W. FAY, JR., A.B. P. E. clergyman; Prof, at Nashotah Seminary, 
Wis. 

GEORGE LINLEY KNIPE, Ph.B. Telephone business; Soc. of Alumni. 

CHARLES Louis MCKEEHAN, A.B., LL.B. *. K. S.; *. B. K.; Spoon-man; 
Philo Debate prize; editor of Pennsylvanian; Moderator; lawyer; mem. 
Univ. Club; mem. Penna. Legislature. 

JOHN DENNIS MAHONEY, A.B. Teacher of English at Northeast Manual Train- 
ing School; Philo Oratory prize. 

EDWARD WORRELL M ANDERSON, LL.B. Attorney-at-Law. 

LAURENCE HOCHSTADTER MARKS, A.B. Moderator; banker; manufacturer; 
Philo valedictorian; Terry prize winner. 

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CHARLES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, A.B., M.D. 3>. B. K.; physician; Moderator. 
WILBUR MORSE, A.B. Newspaper work; employed in the State Dept. of 

Health, Pa. 

FRANK AUGUSTUS ROMMEL, B.S. in Mech. 4>. K. >.; architect. 
GEORGE NOBLIT TYSON, A.B. Superintendent, Henry Bower Chemical Co. 
FRANK THOMAS WOODBURY, A.B., M.D. Asst. Surgeon and Captain, U. S. A.; 

writer of several pamphlets on medical subjects. 

CLASS OF 1898 

JASPER YEATES BRINTON, A.B., LL.B. 3>. K. S.; Editor-in-Chief of Pennsyl- 
vanian; Senior Philosophy prize; Spoon-man; lawyer; Assistant U. S. 
Attorney at Philadelphia; director Phila. Soc. for Organizing Charity. 

BURTON SCOTT EASTON, B.S., Ph.D., '01; B.D., '06; D.D., '10. A. X. P.; 
f>. B. K.; Moderator; Protestant Episcopal clergyman; Professor at 
Nashotah House, Wisconsin; Professor in Western Theological Seminary, 
Chicago; published theological articles; Mitchell prize winner. 

JOHN Louis HANEY, B.S., Ph.D. A. X. P.; 3>. B. K.; Junior English prize; 
Senior English prize; Senior German prize; Professor at Philadelphia 
Central High School; author of works in English literature; member 
Schoolmen's Club; Franklin Inn Club, etc.; Class Prophet. 

E. WILBUR KRIEBEL, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer; Mennonite minister, Macun- 
gie, Pa. 

CHARLES S. LANGSTROTH, B.S., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer; farming in New 
Mex. 

JAMES W. LANGSTROTH, A.B., LL.B. Moderator; lawyer; farming in New 
Mex. 

HORACE CRAIG LONGWELL, A.B. (Ph.D., '08, Strassburg, Germany). . K. .; 
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University; Track Team; Pole 
Vaulting Record Com. 

FRANCIS SIMS McGRATH, B.S., LL.B. Lawyer in New York City. 

DANIEL ERNEST MARTELL, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. A. X. P.; <. B. K.; teacher 
of Romanic Languages at Central High School, Phila. 

FRANK K. SWARTLEY, B.S., LL.B. Lawyer. 

WILLIAM ADAMS MCCLENTHEN, A.B., B.D. P. E. minister in Baltimore, Md. 

ISADORE MERZBACHER, A.B. Teacher in Phila. 

GILBERT IRVING VINCENT, B.S. in E.E., M.E. Engineer, Des Moines, Iowa. 

CLASS OF 1899 

JAMES MORTON BOICE, A.B., M.D. Moderator; Latin salutatorian; physician; 

member of various medical societies. 
FREDERIC DREW BOND, B.S. 

WILLIAM RAWLE BROWN, B.A. $. K. S.; oils and belting business. 
FREDERICK LEWIS CLARK, B.A., LL.B. V. T.; lawyer; member of the Univ. 

Club, etc.; "Bowl Man." 
LEON Dix, B.S. Newspaper and manufacturing business; Philo Essay prize. 

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*ELIJAH DALLETT HEMPHILL, JR., B.S. $. r. A.; lawyer; N. G. P. U. S. Ser- 
vice. 

MILTON DAVID LOEB, B.S. in E. Manufacturer; Moderator. 

HARRY BOWERS MINGLE, B.S. in E., LL.B. A. T.; Moderator; Pres. Lake 
Ontario and Rochester Water Co.; atty-at-law; mem. Univ. Club, etc.; 
Philo valedictorian. 

WINTHROP CUNNINGHAM NEILSON, B.A. $. r. A.; mining and manufacturing 
business. 

ALBERT CARL SAUTTER, B.S., M.D. S. E.; $. A. S.; Ophthalmologist; con- 
nected with numerous medical organizations. 

RALPH CHAMBERS STEWART, B.A., LL.B. S. A. E.; atty-at-law; mem. Frank- 
lin Institute. 

CHARLES SUMMER WESLEY, B.S., LL.B. A. T.; lawyer. 



CLASS OF 1900 

CHALICE WHITMORE BAKER, M.E. 

WILLIAM J. CULLEN, M.S., M.E. Mechanical work in contractor's machinery. 

EDWARD ZIEGLER DAVIS, Ph.D. *. B. K.; Assist. Prof., U. of Pa.; Modern 

Language Assoc.; Union of Old German Students in U. S.; numerous 

translations of German poetry. 
WILLIAM HASTINGS EASTON, B.S., Ph.D. A. X. P.; S. E.; Moderator; 

advertising writer, with Westinghouse Electric Co. 
WALTER Louis FLEISHER, M.S. Manufacturer; contracting engineer. 
STANLEY FOLZ, LL.B. i. B. K.; lawyer. 
JOHN SPENCER FRANCIS, LL.B. <i>. r. A.; attorney-at-law and insurance; 

U. of Pa. Club. 
LEONARD D. FRESCOLN, A.M., M.D. A. X. P.; chief resident phys., Episcopal 

Hospital, Phila.; former member Phila. Orchestra; allied with various 

medical societies. 
ALLISON GAW, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. *. B. K.; Professor of English, Temple 

College; Prof, at Univ. of Southern California; author of many books on 

literary subjects; Philo valedictorian; Philo Essay prize. 
*DANIEL MARTIN KARCHER, B.S. Journalist. 
RALPH NEWTON KELL AM, B.S. , LL.B. A. K. E.; *. A. *.; atty-at-law; mem. 

Univ. Club, etc. 
WILLIAM MCCLELLAN, Ph.D. A. X. P.; *. B. K.; S. S.; Pres. McCleUan- 

Lines Co.; consultative engineer; Instructor in Physics, U. of Pa.; mem. 

Engineers' Club, etc. 
WILLIAM PROCTER REMINGTON, B.D. P. E. minister; rector St. Paul's Church, 

Minneapolis, Minn. 
*ALFRED BELDEN RICE, A.M. 
JAMES WHITFORD RIDDLE, JR., A.B. Moderator; teacher of History at Ursi- 

nus College.; Prin. Hard wick H. S. 
HAROLD HARRISON TRYON, M.A., B.D. $. B. K.; Moderator; Instructor in 

Union Theological Seminary; prize winner in Greek. 

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CLASS OF 1901 

OSWALD THOMPSON ALLIS, M.A., B.D., Ph.D. (Berlin). Instructor in 
Hebrew, Princeton Sem'y; contributor to "Biblical and Theological 
Studies;" prize winner at college. 

ROBERT ALEXANDER BEGGS, JR., A.B., LL.B. Lawyer; Moderator; Philo 
valedictorian; mem. of many clubs; ex.-Pres. Phila. Law Academy. 

THOMAS FRANCIS CADWALADER, A.B. A. <.; <i>. B. K.; Moderator; lawyer; 
salutatorian; Ivy Poet; prize winner in Greek and Oratory; dramatic 
casts; assoc. editor Red and Blue. 

REES D. FRESCOLN, LL.B. A. X. P.; lawyer. 

HENRY JOHNS GIBBONS, A.B. A. T. A.; "Friars;" Moderator; newspaper 
reporter; atty.-at-law ; Asst. City Solicitor; active in numerous political 
leagues; active in Presbyterian church organizations, etc. 

HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, A.B. A. T. A.; minister; Philo- Zelo debate; prize 
winner in Greek; Vice.-Pres. U. of P. Debate Union. 

FRANK McCuLLEY HARDT. 3>. A. 0.; "Friars;" cashier, Northern Liberties 
Bank. 

CARL HENRY HIRZEL, A.B. Minister. 

WALTER THOMPSON KARCHER, B.S. S. E.; architect. 
*DANIEL SCHNECK KELLER, JR., A.B. S. A. E.; *. B. K.; "Friars." 

FRANCIS DREXEL LANGSTROTH. Lumber merchant. 

WILLIAM PAUL O'NEILL. A. T. A.; $. B. K.; fire insurance; prizes in French 
and German. 

CORNELIUS DECATUR SCULLY, B.S. K. S.; lawyer; editor of Pennsylvanian 
and of the Examiner. 

CHARLES FISCHER SLADEN, A.M. $. B. K.; teacher. 

CLARENCE STRATTON, Ph.D. A. X. P.; 3>. B. K.; teacher; took part in Uni- 
versity Dramatics. 

CHARLES GUNNISON STRICKLAND, A.B., M.D. K. S.; S. E.; physician; mem- 
ber of A. M. #. ft. 

CHARLES STEWART WOOD, A.B. $. K. S.; manufacturer; "Friars." 

ELIAS ROOT BEADLE WILLIS, A.B. "Friars;" teacher. 

MATTHEW WILLIS WOOD, B.S., LL.B. A. T.; "Friars;" lawyer; editor- 
in-chief of Pennsylvanian. 

CLASS OF 1902 

CALVIN O. ALTHOUSE, B.S., A.M. S. A. E.; head of the Commercial Dept., 

Central High School, Phila. 

ELMER CRAIG, A.B. Teacher in Southern High School, Phila. 
HERMAN GIRVIN CUTHBERT, A.M. $. B. K.; Moderator; Instructor in the 

Newark State Normal School. 
BENJAMIN MIFFLIN HOOD. 
MAYLIN JOSEPH PICKERING, LL.B. A. X. P.; lawyer; assessor; Sec., Law 

Acad. ; editor of the Pennsylvanian; Sec. and Treas. of the Pennsylvanian 

Printing Co. 
DAVID A. PITT, A.B. 

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CLAUDE LEHMAN ROTH, A.B., LL.B. Lawyer. 

EDWARD CARROLL SCHAEFFER. Lawyer in Reading, Pa. 

THOMAS HENRY WALNUT, A.B., LL.B. Atty.-at-Law; State Representative. 

EDWARD COPE WOOD, A.B. 

CLASS OF 1903 

ALEXANDER MACKIE ADAMS, B.S. in Arch. 

WILLIAM ALLEN. Philo debate prize. 

PERCY JAMES BROWN, A.B. 

PAUL CHININGTON. 

THOMAS DARLINGTON COPE, Ph.D. 4>. B. K.; Moderator; Asst. Prof, of 

Physics at Univ. of Pa.; winner of Philo debate prize; valedictorian 

Frazier Prize Debate. 

PAXSON DEETER, LL.B. $. B. K.; lawyer; Varsity debater. 
ROBERT HOWARD EISENBREY. A. $.; 2. E. 
WILLIAM BAXTER FRANCE, LL.B. 2. A. E.; Ivy Poet. 
FERDINAND HARRY GRASER, A.M. Editor of The Railway World; Instructor 

at Temple Coll., Phila.; Secretary to Geo. Burnham, Jr.; Honor Man at 

college; mem. Girard Coll. Alumni. 
WILLIAM HORACE HEPBURN, LL.B. "2. Z. 

CLINTON NEVIUS LAIRD, A.M. Moderator; editor Pennsylvanian. 
JOSEPH FRAZIER LEWIS, B.S. in Elec. Eng. Philo valedictorian. 
DANIEL DAVID LUCKENBILL, A.B. 
FRANCIS H. SHIELDS, LL.B. K. 2. 
WILLIAM JONES SMITH, B.S. in Arch. 2. "2. 

MILTON BENNEVILLE STALLMAN, A.B. *. B. K.; winner of several prizes. 
CHARLES PERCY SWAYNE. 
LEWIS WALKER, B.S. in Econ. <f>. A. 0. 
ROYDEN KEITH YERKES, A.M. <. B. K.; Instructor in Hebrew, Univ. of Pa.; 

P. E. clergyman, Ch. of the Transfiguration, Phila.; Philo essay prize. 

CLASS OF 1904 

JOHN AUBREY ANDERSON, A.B. Philo Debating Team. 

W. H. BLANEY, B.S. in Econ. 2. A. E. 

ARTHUR CLEVELAND, A.M., Ph.D. $. B. K.; Instructor in Eng. Lit., U. of P.; 

author on literary topics; winner of several prizes at college. 
LIVINGSTON CORSON, B.S., Ph.D. 

ABRAHAM NOWELL CREADICK. A. T.; editor Pennsylvanian. 
Louis MORTON FLEISHER, B.S., LL.B. Attorney-at-law; captain Fencing 

Team. 

C. WARREN GAUL. 
WESLEY LYNN HEMPHILL, A.M. *. B. K.; winner of Philo Essay prize and 

Oratory prize; member Philo debating teams. 
GORDON VINCENT HOSKINS, A.B. Philo Essay prize. 

JAMES BULLEN KARCHER, B.S. in Arch. K. 2.; editor Red and Blue and Punch 
Bowl. 

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WILLIAM H. G. MACKAY, A.B., M.D. Moderator; physician. 

MARSHALL SHAPLEIGH MORGAN, A.B. Z. V. 

WALTER CRESSON PUGH, A.B., B.D. P. E. clergyman in Sunbury, Pa.; editor 

of the Pennsylvanian and winner of prizes. 
HAROLD S. RAMBO. Moderator; Virginia Debate Team. 
THOMAS ELLIS ROBINS, A.B. A. *.; 3>. B. K.; "Sphinx;" received first Rhodes 

Scholarship awarded in State of Pa.; private secretary to Earl Winterton, 

M.P.; editor of Pennsylvanian; winner of prizes at college, etc. 
PERCY ROBBINS STOCKMAN, A.B. A. X. P.; P. E. clergyman; missionary to 

Tchang, China. 

GEORGE A. WALTON. Moderator; Headmaster of George School, Pa. 
WINTON JOHN WHITE. Moderator. 
W. K. WILLIAMS. 

CLASS OF 1905 

JAMES HAROLD AUSTIN, M.D. A. T.; 3>. B. K.; physician. 

FREDERIC ANTHONY CHILD, A.B., M.A. Moderator; Instructor in Public 
Speaking, Dept. of Eng., U. of P.; winner of declamation prizes. 

PAUL FREEMAN, LL.B. Lawyer. 

FRANK MCKNIGHT GRAY, A.M. K. S.; "Friars;" minister. 

ADAM REBER, B.S. in Econ. 

JOSIAH RICHARDS, B.S. in Econ. $. A. 9.; editor of Red and Blue. 

RAYMOND SWOAD ROGERS. 

ALFRED DE FOREST SNIVEL Y, A.B., A.M., B.D. A. X. P.; P. E. clergy- 
man ; missionary at Wheatland, Wyo. 

STANLEY SIMPSON SWARTLEY, A.B. <f>. B. K.; Moderator; winner of various 
prizes; teacher, Meadville, Pa. Harrison Fellow in Eng. U. of P. 

JPSEPH BARNARD WALTON, M.D. i>. B. K.; 2. S.; Moderator; active in 
debating. 

CLASS OF 1906 

FRANCIS HERBERT BUDD. 

EDWARD WALLACE CHAD WICK, LL.B. $. B. K.; Moderator; lawyer; Asst. 

Drainage Engr., U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; editor-in-chief of Red and 

Blue. 

WINFIELD WILSON CRAWFORD, LL.B. K. 2.; lawyer; Philo Debating Team. 
RIED STUART DICKSON, A.B., B.D. Presby. clergyman in Orange, N. J. 
GEORGE COMLY FOUST, A.M. <S>. B. K.; Instructor at Girard Coll., Phila. 
ELWOOD MDLLARD GOVAN, B.S. Tutor. 

WILLIAM SLETOR GRANLEES, B.S. Freshman Debating Team; *. r. A. 
WILLIAM PAGE HARBESON, B.S., LL.B. <. B. K.; Moderator; Instructor in 

English, U. of P.; Philo essay prize; Sophomore honors and winner of 

various prizes. 

EDWARD FITHIAN HITCHCOCK, A.B., LL.B. A. X.; $. B. K.; att'y-at-law. 
JOHN ROBINSON HUGGINS, B.D. A. X. P.; P. E. clergyman in Phila. 
ROBERT ENEAS LAMBERTON, LL.B. Sec. A. A.; 2. A. E.; lawyer. 
EUGENE STOCK MCCARTNEY, Ph.D. 4>. B. K.; Instructor in Latin, U. of P. 

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BYRON A. MILKER, LL.B. K. S.; Varsity Debate Team; lawyer. 

JOHN L. REINER, A.B. Winner of Latin and English prizes. 

FRANCIS CARR STIFLER, A.M., B.D. K. S.; Moderator; Greek prizes; student 

at Yale Divinity Sch.; editor Yale Divinity Quarterly; Honor Man and 

prize winner at college; Pres. of Arts and Sci. Assoc.; minister at Saginaw, 

Mich. 

WILLIAM KNIGHT VICTOR. $. r. A.; lawyer. 
WILLIAM HOMER WALKER. 
FRANCIS MACOMB WETHERILL. P. E. clergyman; assoc. editor of the Pennsyl- 

vanian. 
THOMAS HUFF WILSON. 

CLASS OF 1907 

JOHN MILTON ASHTON. Varsity debater. 

JOHN RALPH DAVIS, Ch.E. Chemist. 

BRUCE WALLAHAN DENNIS, B.S. A. X. P.; mem. Musical Clubs. 

MARCUS HOLLADAY ELLIOTT, B.S. $. A. 9.; Moderator. 

OLIPHANT GIBBONS, A.B. <. T. T. I.; salutatorian; Presby. minister. 

MARK JAMES INGLE, Ch.E. Asst. Chemist, Dept. of Agriculture; assoc. 

editor of Pennsylvanian; mem. Priestley Chemical Club. 
ZYGMUNT STEPHEN LEYMEL, B.S. Debating. 
EDWARD BURKE MARTIN, LL.B. Att'y-at-Law. 
JOHN COOPER MENDENHALL, A.M. <. B. K.; Instructor in English, U. of P.; 

assoc. editor Red and Blue; Ivy Poet. 
AUGUSTUS WALTON SHICK, A.B. Moderator; P. E. clergyman; Varsity 

Debating Team 1906-07; Ivy Orator. 
HOWARD MORRIS STUCKERT, A.B. P. E. clergyman. 



CLASS OF 1908 
A. RUSHTON ALLEN. 
THOMAS WISTAR BROWN, 3D, B.S., A.M., LL.B. <I>. B. K.; editor of Red and 

Blue, Punch Bowl; lawyer. 

MARTIN HAYS BICKHAM, B.S. t. B. K.; Moderator; S. E. 
ENGLEHART AUGUST ECKHARDT, B.S., Ph.D. Instructor at University of 

Penna. 
CARL GUSTAVE FREDERICK FRANZEN, A.B., M.A. 4>. B. K.; Moderator; 

teacher of Latin and Math., Trinity College, Texas; grad. student, 

University of Iowa; prize winner at U. of P. in Latin and Greek; Philo 

Essay prize. 

HOWARD WELLS FULWEILER, B.S. P. E. missionary in Wyoming. 
HAROLD GOODWIN, JR., B.S. in E.E. S. 3. 
GARTON S. GREENE, A.S., A.M. 

CHARLES HAYDEN GRIFFITH. Philo-Zelo Debate; Philo Oratorical Prize. 
NORMAN WOOLSTON HARKER, A.B., LL.B. A. X. P.; Class Poet; Musical 

Clubs; member of Mask and Wig Club and Sharswood Law Club; lawyer; 

Instructor in Law at Central High School. 

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JAMES BURNETTE HOLLAND, B.S., LL.B. Lawyer. 

CHRISTIAN F. KLEBSATTEL, A.B., A.M. $. B. K. 

FRANK WORTHINGTON MELVIN, B.S. in Econ. Teacher at Southern High 
School, Phila. 

JAMES FLAVIAN GABRIEL LAVERY. 

FRANK ALBERT PAUL, B.S., LL.B. A. X.; *. B. K.; Moderator; Senior 
Honors; Second Frazier Debate prize, 1906; Varsity Debate Team, 
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909; Philo Debate Teams, 1907-08; editor of Penn- 
sylvanian, Red and Blue and Punch Bowl; lawyer; Philo Oratory prize. 

JOHN FRANKLIN REEVES, A.B., M.D. Class Crew. 

FRANCIS BERRY SNYDER, A.B. 

FRANK WILLIAM STERRETT, A.B. i>, A. <fc. 

GEORGE WANGER, LL.B. 4>. B. K.; Moderator; valedictorian; editor Punch 
Bowl; Instructor in Public Speaking, Central High School; attorney- 
at-law; editor American Law Reviews. 

WALTER RHOADS WHITE, A.B., LL.B. Combined Musical Clubs. 



CLASS OF 1909 

JOHN CLEMMER BECHTEL, B.S., A.M. Instructor in the Frankford Annex, 

Phila. Central High School. 
CHARLES JAMES COLE, JR., A.B. <t. B. K.; Moderator; student in Medical 

Dept. U. of P. ; winner of Geo. Allen Latin prize. 
WALTER FRANCIS COLES. Teacher at N. E. Manual Training School. 
THOMAS SINCLAIR DICKSON, A.B., B.D. Presb. clergyman, West Orange, 

N.J. 
CLEMENT EDGAR FOUST, A.B., A.M. $. B. K.; Moderator; Instructor of 

English at U. of P.; Philo Oratory prize. 
ROBERT MARTIN GILSON, A.B. A. S. *.; Mathematics prize. 
DONALD KNAPP HARRIS, B.S. in Econ. Sophomore Honors. 
ALLEN IRVING HUCKINS, B.S., LL.B. Practicing law. 
ROBERT BINES WOODWARD HUTT, B.S., A.M. A. S. $. 
WILLIAM DOWLIN JONES, B.S., A.M. 
GEORGE BUCKLEY KRANTZ, A.B. Clergyman. 
ARTHUR HAGEN MILLER, A.B., LL.B. Practicing law, Phila.; Vice-Pres. Arts 

and Sci. Assoc. 

LAMBERT OTT, JR., B.S. in Econ., LL.B. *. A. 8. 
RICHARD SCHELLENS. 

ABRAM WALTER SMITH, B.S. Philo Debate prize. 

J. HENRY SMYTHE, JR., B.S. in Econ. Publisher of juvenile picture books. 
PERCIVAL SMITH STRAUSS, B.S. Cast of Philo play, 1909; teacher at Central 

Manual Training School. 

FRANK DOUGHTON TYSON, A.B., Ph.D. *. B. K.; taught in School of Phil- 
anthropy, N. Y.; teacher in Pittsburgh Univ. in Sociology; Frazier 

Athletic Scholarship prize. 

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CLASS OF 1910 

WILFRED T. BIRDSALL (B.A., Amherst, '08) , B.S. in E.E. A. A. $.; electrical 

engineer with Westinghouse Co. 

HENRY CHRISTIAN CRANER, A.S. Philo Debate Team, 1909. 
FREDERICK CHARLES DIETZ, A.B. 
MARSHALL HAND DIVERTY, A.M., B.S., LL.B. 

JOHN DOLMAN, JR., B.S., A.M. Moderator; Instructor at U. of P., 1910. 
ELMER A. Dox, A.B., A.M. 

CHARLES ADAM DREFS, B.S. in Econ., LL.B. S. n.; A. S. P.; Acacia; Moder- 
ator; valedictorian; Philo Debate prize, 1910; Fresh. Debate Team; 

Varsity Debate Team, 1909-10; Philo Debate Teams, 1908, 1909, 1910; 

Ivy Orator; awarded Scholarship prize at Univ. of Buffalo Law School, 

where he received his LL.B. 
JACOB C. FISHER, B.S. in Econ. 
ARCHER BUTLER GILFILLAN, A.B. $>. B. K. 
MAURICE BEDELL HOMER. Cast of Philo play, 1908; color maker. 
CARL HUBBARD HOOVER, B.S., A.B. 4. B. K.; Moderator. 
FRED. A. HUGHES, A.B., LL.B. 
DONALD McLEOD LAY, B.S. K. A.; *. B. K.; Moderator; editor The 

Automobile. 
ARTHUR WILLIAM MARRIOTT, C.E. Civil engineer with Penna. R. R.; cast 

of "Two Angry Women of Abington." 
MULFORD MORRIS, A.B. 
KWANG PU-CHEN, B.S. in Econ. 
WALTER LOWRIE RITTER, A.B. 2. n.; theological student, Princeton; Honor 

Man and winner of Geo. Allen prize; cast of "Two Angry Women of 

Abington;" Presbyterian minister at Amity, N. Y. 
PETER LAMBERT SCHAUBLE, A.B. 
THOMAS CARLYLE SHAFFER, A.B., A.M. 

CLAUDE HERR SOWERS, B.S. in C.E. Civil and municipal engineer. 
HAMILTON TORREY, B.S. S. n. 
JESSE ROGERS ULLRICH, B.S. Head of Dept. of Technical Drawing, Wilkes- 

Barre High School. 

THOR GRIFFITH WESENBERG, A.B., A.M. 
HAROLD CUSTER WHITESIDE. 
PHILIP WORK, LL.B. 

CLASS OF 1911 

WILLIAM LEWIS ABBOTT, A.B. Varsity Debate Team, 1911; Philo Debate 

Teams, 1909, 1910, 1911; Philo Debate prize. 
EDWARD ASHBROOK BRIGGS, B.S. 4>. B. K. 
WILLIAM SEAL CARPENTER, B.S., A.M. 
ERNEST WALDRON CHEYNEY, B.S. . B. K.; S. S.; Honor Man; graduate 

work in Biology and Forestry, Univ. of Mich, and U. of P. 
ROYAL B. DOBBINS, Ch.E. 
JOSEPH MOREAU GOTTSCHALK, A.B. 

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FRANK KENNETH MOORE, A.B. 

EDWIN WILLIAM PERROTT. K. A.; Philo Debate Team, 1909; Philo Debate 

prize. 

WILLARD K. Ross, B.S. 

DAVID WALTER STECKBECK, B.S., A.M. Instructor at University of Penna. 
GUY NEARING, B.S. *. B. K.; Class Poet; teacher. 

CLASS OF 1912 

HENRY CLAY ADAMS, B.S. in M.E. 
ANTHONY LOCKWOOD ARNOLD, A.B. 
ALBERT RIEFF BECHTEL, B.S., A.M. Moderator; cast of Philo play, 1909; 

Instructor at State College, Pa. 
WILLIAM MAHONEY CROWE, Elec. Eng. Dept. Moderator; Philo Debate 

Team, 1910; cast of Philo play, 1911; Elect. Bureau, City Hall, Phila. 
HENRY LIPPINCOTT HOMER. 
GILBERT ROBERT HUGHES, B.S., A.M. A. Q.; Philo Debate Teams, 1910, 

1911, 1912; Moderator. 

FREDERICK HENRY KOSCHWITZ, B.S. in Econ., A.M. 
HENRY DEXTER LEARNED, A.B. <f>. B. K.; Sophomore Latin and Greek 

prizes; Senior German prize. 

TAI-CHI FRANCIS Quo, B.S. 4. B. K.; Philo Oratory prize. 
MILES HECKINDORN READ, B.S. in E.E. 
SAMUEL LOGAN SHANAMAN, B.S. in Chem. Moderator; cast of Philo play, 

1911; Head of Dept. of Science in Ardmore High School, Ardmore, Pa. 
WILLIAM DAYTON SHELLEY, B.A. A. X. P.; <. B. K.; Moderator; cast of 

Philo plays, 1911-12; member Mask and Wig Club; with John B. 

Stetson Co. 

CLARENCE JOHN SHOEMAKER, B.S. in Econ. 

WALTER HENDRICKS RENNER TRUMBAUER, B.S., A.M. . B. K.; Moder- 
ator; Freshman Debate Team; cast of Philo plays, 1911-12; Philo Essay 

prize. Asst. Univ. of Penna. 

CLASS OF 1913 

FRANKLIN HALLMAN BAKER. 4>. B. K. 

MORRISON COMEGYS BOYD, A.B. 4>. B. K.; Moderator; Freshman, Sopho- 
more and Junior Greek prizes; Junior Latin prize; cast of Philo plays, 
1911-13; Philo valedictorian. 

CLARENCE HALL EPPLESHEIMER. Philo Debate prize, 1912. 

ROBERT EDWARD FITHIAN. Philo Debate Teams, 1910-11. 

ANDREW JACKSON GRIFFITH, B.S. in Econ. Varsity Track Team, 1912-13. 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAMILTON, A.B. <. A. G. ; <. B. K.; law student, 
Univ. of Penna. 

ROBERT CHARLES LIGGETT, A.B. <. r. A. 

GEORGE RAY OSTER, A.B. Sophomore Debate Team; Philo Debate Team, 
1910. 

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CARROLL BREWSTER RHOADS, B.S. 4>. A. 9.; Moderator; Freshman Debate 
prize; Varsity Debate Team, 1911-12; First Frazier Debate prize, 
1911-12; Philo Debate Team; law student at Harvard; Philo Debate 
prize. 

GEORGE WILLIAM ROWLEY, A.B. A. X. P.; $. B. K.; cast of Philo play, 
1912; Varsity Debate Team, 1912-13; Philo salutatorian. 

LEWIS CHENEY SMITH. 

RAYMOND FULTON SMITH, A.B. Cast of Philo play, 1911. 



CLASS OF 1914 

RANDOLPH GREENFIELD ADAMS (Arts). <t>. K. .; $>. B. K.; Moderator; 

chairman of the comm. to publish Philo history; Fresh. Debate Team; 

Fresh. Debate prize; Philo Debate Teams, 1912-13; captain Varsity 

Debate Team, 1913; 2d prize Frazier Debate; Philo Debate prize; cast 

of Philo plays, 1911-13. 
WALLACE GREENE ARNOLD (Arts). Moderator; Fresh. Debate Team; Soph. 

Debate Team; Philo Debate Team, 1913; cast of Philo plays, 1911-13. 
RODNEY TUNNELLE BONSALL (Arts). 3>. B. K.; Sophomore honors; cast of 

Philo plays, 1911-12; manager, 1913. 
WILLIAM FISHER BYRON (Arts). Cast of Philo play, 1913. 
WILLIAM FLOYD CLINGER (Wharton). S. A. X.; editor-in-chief of Red and 

Blue; cast of Philo play, 1912. 
ROBERT FOLGER WESTCOTT CONQUEST (Arts). 
EARLSTON LILBURN HARGETT (Wharton). A. X.; Fresh. Debate Team; Soph. 

Debate Team; Varsity Debate Team, 1913; 1st prize, Frazier Debate; 

Philo Debate Team, 1911; cast of Philo plays, 1911-13. 
ALLAN CLINTON HOPKINS (Wharton). Philo Debate Team, 1912; cast of 

Philo play, 1912. 

GEORGE JOHN KILGUS (Wharton). 
WALTER FREDERICK KUHN (Arts). 
LEON JAY LETOURNEAU (Whar. 2 yr. Spec.). 
ALFRED JAMES SNYDER (Arts, Law). Cast of Philo play, 1911. 
LAWRENCE ARTHUR SYLVESTER (Arts). Soph. Debate Team; Cast of Philo 

play, 1912. 

ARTHUR GEORGE THORP (Architect Spec.). 
PAU-SUNG WONG (Wharton). 



CLASS OF 1915 

KARL RICHARDSON ALDEN (Arts). Fresh. Debate Team; Soph. Debate Team; 

Soph. Debate prize; Sophomore honors. 

GEORGE LEVERING ARNHOLD (Arts, Law). Cast of Philo play, 1912. 
ROBERT ALEXANDER ARRISON (Arts). Sophomore honors; Philo Essay prize. 
HERMAN FREDERICK BRALL (Arts). Sophomore honors. 
IRWIN BOESHORE (Arts). 

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CHARLES COLLIER BUTTERWORTH, 2n (Arts). Sophomore honors; Fresh. 
Debate Team; Philo Debate Team, 1913; Sophomore Latin prize; cast 
of Philo plays, 1912-13. 

RALPH ERSKINE CLELAND (Arts). Sophomore honors. 

ROBERT EWING DENGLER (Arts). Sophomore honors; Freshman and Sopho- 
more Greek prizes; cast of Philo play, 1913. 

NATHAN RUSSELL CON WELL FRETZ (Wharton). Cast of Philo play, 1913. 

LORREN WALBRIDGE GARLICHS (Wharton). Freshman Debate Team; cast of 
Philo play, 1913. 

DONALD RITTER JONES (Arts). A. <t>.; cast of Philo plays, 1912-13. 

JOHN ANTHONY MORRIS KIMBER (Arts). 

HENRY LEWIS, JR. (Arts). A. *. 

CARL ARTHUR PENSKE (Wharton). 

CHESTER DECKARD RITTER (Arts). 

SIDNEY SANDERSON (Arts). 

Louis FREDERIC SANVILLE (Wharton). Cast of Philo plays, 1912-13. 

HENRY GOULD SWENEY (Arts). A. fl.; cast of Philo play, 1913. 

ALFRED HECTOR WILLIAMS (Wharton). A. T. li.; Freshman and Sopho- 
more Debate Teams; Freshman and Sophomore Debate prizes. 



CLASS OF 1916 

EDWARD RUSSELL ANSCHUTZ (Arts). 

FRANKLIN ATLEE (Arts). 

CLAUDE WALTER DUDLEY (Wharton). Freshman Debate Team; Freshman 

Debate prize. 

THOMAS ALBERT FOULKE (Arts). 
CLARENCE EDWARD FURST (Arts). 

ERNEST C. GOULD (Wharton). Freshman Debate Team. 
HAROLD BUHLER GOULSON (Wharton). 
EL WOOD LINDSAY HAINES (Arts). 
HARRIS ALLEN HAMLIN (Wharton). 
MILTON L. HEINTZLEMAN (Wharton). 
CARLE EARLE HENRY (Wharton). 
CHARLES RUSSELL MEYER (Wh. Sp.). 
FRANCIS BRIGGS MILLIGAN (Arts). 

WILFRED ALAN PENDLETON (Arts). Freshman Debate Team. 
CALVIN PHILIPS (Wharton). 



CLASS OF 1917 

JOHN DEAN ARMSTRONG (Arts). 
NATHAN PRATT ARNOLD (Arts). 
FRANK HARVEY BUSH (Wharton). 
ARNOLD DE ORIESTE BELCHER (Arts). 
HARRY COGGESHALL DODD (Arts). 

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CHARLES RAYMOND HOLLENBACH (Arts), 
GEORGE FAIRCHILD KEARNEY (Arts). 
EDGAR MORRIS LUTTGEN (Arts). 
THEODORE PITCAIRN (Arts). 
HERBERT CHARLES RAFETTO (Arts). 
ROBERT ERNEST SPILLER (Arts). 



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